Most networks gave top play to follow-up reports on the murder of a mother and her two children in Fukuoka. NTV led with a report that the Japanese national table tennis team returned to Japan from Germany on Wednesday.

Major front-page times in national papers include the deadly ISIL attacks on the parliament building and Ayatollah Khomeini’s tomb in Iran and a nuclear accident in Ibaraki on Tuesday in which five workers at a nuclear research facility were exposed to radioactive material when a bag containing plutonium burst.