Overview
- Tomari village approved a supplementary budget that includes distributing 30,000 yen in local shopping vouchers to every household, part of 46 million yen in price-relief measures.
- Police in Hokkaido are investigating separate SNS-linked frauds, including about 1.55 million yen in crypto taken from a Hakodate woman and roughly 21.5 million yen in cash from a Sapporo woman.
- The government’s Hokkaido–Sanriku offshore aftershock attention information prompted some fishery cooperatives to suspend operations for up to a week as a precaution.
- Kitahiroshima’s mayor said developing a new industrial park is difficult for now, citing higher prices and construction costs, with direction to be set during fiscal 2025.
- A broader analysis highlights worsening municipal finances across Hokkaido beyond conventional indicators, while Mie Prefecture’s Iga City weighs discipline over a staffer’s defamatory SNS posts.