Overview
- Fukuoka High Court overturned a lower court’s dangerous-driving conviction over a 2021 Oita fatal crash, finding negligent driving causing death and sentencing the 24-year-old to four years and six months, citing no deviation from the travel lane.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom said the state will participate in WHO’s GOARN after the U.S. withdrawal was declared complete, describing it as the first state-level move and noting talks with WHO chief Tedros in Switzerland.
- Japan announced a two-year special measure from fiscal 2026 to ease taxes for clinic openings or succession in designated physician-shortage areas, halving the real estate valuation for acquisition tax and cutting the initial registration tax rate to 0.2%.
- The Chudo Reform Alliance revoked its proportional Tokyo endorsement of former lawmaker Yoriko En, who had sought to run in Tokyo’s 17th district.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average turned lower by 233 points at 10 a.m. on profit taking after a sharp two-day rise, according to early New York trading figures.