All networks gave top play to reports on an incident in which a 7-year-old girl was hit by a train in Niigata on Monday, saying that she was apparently strangled to death before being abandoned on the railway.

Main front-page stories in national papers included the summit held between DPRK leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi in Dalian on Tuesday, President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, and Takeda Pharmaceutical’s successful buyout of Irish drug maker Shire.