Broadcasters led with reports on the GOJ’s decision to convene an extraordinary Diet session on Oct. 20 (NHK), Japan’s victory over Samoa in a 2023 Rugby World Cup match (NTV, Fuji TV), a former Japanese pop group member’s confession that he was sexually harassed by the late Johnny Kitagawa for about five years (TBS), and a hydrofluoric acid spill at….Read more

Broadcasters led with reports on Japan’s victory over Samoa in a 2023 Rugby World Cup match early this morning (NHK, NTV, Fuji TV) and an incident in which a zookeeper was apparently attacked and killed by a lion at Tohoku Safari Park in Fukushima (TV Asahi).   Main stories in national papers included secret talks between Japan and North Korea….Read more

Broadcasters led with reports on the unusually hot weather in many parts of Japan today (NHK, NTV), the arrest of a former employee of major trading firm Sojitz Corp. on charges of stealing secret data from rival trading firm Kanematsu (TBS), the GOJ’s draft proposal on first response in the event of a pandemic (Fuji TV), and an update on….Read more

All networks led with reports on an incident at a hospital in Shizuoka yesterday in which a man stabbed and killed his daughter and wife, who were hospitalized, before killing himself.   Main stories in national papers included the indictment of Diet member Akimoto for receiving a bribe in connection with his advocacy for offshore wind power generation, the Tsushima….Read more

TV networks gave top coverage to Tsushima Mayor Hitakatsu’s announcement that the municipality will not accept the central government’s conducting a feasibility study for constructing a nuclear waste disposal facility on the remote island (NHK), Tokyo prosecutors’ plan to indict Diet member Akimoto for graft in connection with his advocacy for offshore wind power generation (NTV, TV Asahi), Okinawa Governor….Read more

NHK led with a report on an informal decision by the mayor of Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, not to approve a GOJ study on the possible storage of nuclear waste on the remote island despite a municipal assembly vote earlier this month in favor of accommodating it. All commercial broadcasters gave top coverage to a robbery at a toy store in Utsunomiya, Tochigi….Read more

All TV networks gave top coverage to Prime Minister Kishida’s instructions to cabinet ministers this morning to put together a pump-priming package in October in order to help people weather rising inflation by expanding investment and achieving “structural wage hikes.”

NHK gave top play to Prime Minister Kishida’s plan to formulate a pump-priming package in October. Most commercial broadcasters led with reports on the arrest of a high school student in Niigata yesterday on charges of assaulting three strangers with a knife at a shopping mall, while TV Asahi’s top item was the opening of the annual IAEA conference in….Read more

Broadcasters led with reports on Prime Minister Kishida’s plan to announce this evening the main pillars of the new economic measures to be compiled by the government by the end of next month (NTV, Fuji TV, TV Asahi), a follow-up report on a food poisoning incident involving a bento maker in Aomori (TBS), and the return to Earth of NASA’s….Read more

Broadcasters led with reports on Prime Minister Kishida’s plan to instruct relevant cabinet ministers tomorrow to begin full-scale discussions on the new economic measures that the GOJ plans to compile by the end of next month (NHK), the cool weather over the weekend in Japan (NTV), the arrest of a 22-year-old man on charges of killing his girlfriend in Chiba….Read more