Overview
- Japan’s education ministry, which announced Tuesday it will visit Doshisha’s school corporation on April 24, plans to review safety management, the trip’s planning, routine activities, and the corporation’s response after two students died when two boats capsized off Henoko in Nago, Okinawa.
- The ministry said reports gathered through Kyoto Prefecture already pointed to gaps such as weak safety measures, no advance site check, and poor explanations to parents, and it will send senior officials to take direct testimony.
- In a separate case Tuesday, the Sapporo High Court upheld an insanity finding and left in place an acquittal for Masami Ogino in the 2022 arson at a support facility in Kitahiroshima that killed two people, rejecting a prosecution appeal after closing the hearing the same day.
- Following Monday’s collision on the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi, police arrested a 42-year-old truck driver after a work crew member was killed and another was badly hurt, and they said the driver admitted he was not watching the road.
- Political and public-interest notes rounded out the day: Hiroshima’s governor urged Japan to send a higher-profile voice than a vice foreign minister to next week’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty talks, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi defended calling Maritime SDF leaders “military” in a post, Shohei Ohtani’s on-base streak reached 50 games Saturday, and Sabae-based jig.jp began online sales Sunday of its consumer AR glasses, which display information in the right lens.