Overview
- Tokyo High Court said the Unification Church sent more than ¥650 billion overseas from FY2018–22, about 90% to South Korea, and recognized excessive demands by leader Hak Ja Han in upholding a dissolution order.
- Japan’s education ministry reported 4,317 unfilled teaching posts at the start of FY2025 across 2,828 public schools, or 8.8% of schools, worsening from FY2021 and with some jurisdictions topping 30%.
- Germany’s disabled-sports federation announced its team will skip the March 6 Milan–Cortina Paralympics opening ceremony in protest over the participation of Russia and Belarus.
- China opened its annual parliament with Premier Li Qiang setting a 2026 GDP growth target of 4.5–5.0%, signaling a more cautious pace after recent slowdowns.
- Police actions advanced in several cases, including the arrest of a physician suspected of oiling shrine structures, the re-arrest of a 19-year-old in a cash-card fraud, and the detention of a former IT employee accused of faking a ransomware incident to disrupt work.