NHK gave top play to a report on the murder of an IT seminar instructor on Sunday in Fukuoka. NTV, Fuji TV, and TV Asahi led with reports on yesterday’s games at the FIFA World Cup. TBS gave top play to a report that a man was arrested after he barricaded himself at a restaurant in Yoyogi, Tokyo, on Monday.

Major front-page items in national papers included updates on the earthquake that hit Osaka a week ago, a GOJ policy on updating laws connected to the implementation of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, a central government plan to establish comprehensive rules on the application of artificial intelligence to medicine, and a major Japanese bank’s moves to promote “digital wallets.”