Overview
- A Kyodo survey found none of the 46 governors outside Fukushima willing or conditionally open to hosting decontamination soil, with 24 saying they cannot judge at this time.
- Over 14 million cubic meters of decontamination soil are stored at interim facilities in Okuma and Futaba, with the government still aiming to start picking candidate sites around 2030 and to complete off-site disposal by March 2045.
- In the Moritomo Gakuen case, the Finance Ministry and Kinki Finance Bureau released about 28,000 pages of emails and related records in a sixth disclosure to the widow of late official Toshio Akagi.
- A civil-rights group urged Ibaraki Prefecture to withdraw a FY2026 reward program for tips on suspected illegal foreign employment, calling it a system that encourages denunciation.
- Nippon Ishin signaled it is weighing an automatic reduction of 45 proportional Lower House seats if electoral reform talks stall, as a meeting with ruling-party leaders is being arranged this week.