Overview
- The ministry has accepted a ruling party push to delete prosecutors’ appeal rights from the main criminal procedure text and to allow only narrow exceptions in a separate clause.
- Lawmakers pressed last week for the change to be in the core statute rather than a supplement, and party deliberations on the new draft are set to continue.
- Fuji Media Holdings reported an 8.7 billion yen operating loss, citing advertisers pausing commercials after the company’s handling of sexual assault allegations involving former talent Masahiro Nakai.
- ROHM posted a 158.4 billion yen net loss and booked a 193.6 billion yen impairment on semiconductor equipment due to weak electric‑vehicle demand.
- Tokyo’s Nikkei opened higher by 476 points to 62,894 while the Dow fell 358 points after the open, and Hokkaido police are probing a 30 million yen phone scam in which callers posed as Tokyo police.