Overview
- Kizuna Holdings filed in Osaka District Court to void the city’s order to return about ¥11 billion tied to disability work support, which pays extra when a participant stays in a regular job for six months.
- Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama said the city will contest the case and is weighing a fraud complaint against Kizuna, which would move the dispute beyond an administrative repayment fight.
- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told lawmakers that a new supplementary budget is not needed now, saying 2026 reserve funds can cover higher energy costs and rejecting calls for public austerity.
- At the U.N. Nuclear Non‑Proliferation Treaty meeting in New York, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister said Russia’s invasion and attacks near nuclear plants undermine the treaty, as Japanese survivors opened an exhibit showing the toll in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Kyodo News admonished five employees, including its Wakayama bureau chief, after the agency wrongly named an unrelated diving shop in coverage of a fatal accident and then withdrew the report.