Overview
- An evacuation charter from Dubai landed at Haneda with 276 passengers, and the Foreign Ministry said further government-arranged flights from Muscat and Riyadh are planned, with a Riyadh–Narita arrival also expected today.
- Returnees described relief on arrival and recounted seeing drone or missile-like objects and hearing explosions in the region before departure.
- Authorities responded to serious domestic safety cases, deploying a mountain rescue team after multiple climbers slipped near Mount Fuji’s Fujinomiya new 7th station during the winter closure and opening on-site checks at Okayama’s Saidaiji festival where one man died and two others were hospitalized.
- Following the Tokyo High Court’s order to dissolve the former Unification Church, victims have publicly detailed long-term harms and renewed calls for redress as the legal winding-down proceeds.
- Kyoto University announced a university-wide push to accelerate science using AI, including AI-driven research on metal–organic frameworks tied to last year’s Nobel-recognized work, with Special Professor Susumu Kitagawa participating.