NHK gave top play to a report that an inmate confessed yesterday to the murder of a 9-year-old girl in Okayama 14 years ago. All commercial networks led with reports on the scandal involving Nihon University’s football team.

Major front-page items in national papers included follow-ups on the scandal involving Nihon University’s football team, a DPRK official’s planned trip to New York for a meeting with Secretary of State Pompeo, and a GOJ proposal to accept foreign “manual laborers.”