Overview
- Kyoto police are still searching for 11-year-old Yuki Adachi, who disappeared March 23 after his father dropped him near his elementary school in Nantan.
- Sonobe Elementary said it realized his absence around 8:30 a.m. but called his family only close to noon, citing a busy graduation morning and staff miscommunication, and it acknowledged the delay as a first-response failure.
- The Democratic Party for the People, which held its party convention Sunday in Tokyo, approved a plan to boost its local assembly members from about 340 to 700 after next spring’s unified local elections.
- Party leaders said their prior approach of negotiating as a small partner to enact policies has become difficult since the Liberal Democratic Party’s big lower-house victory, signaling a shift toward rebuilding local strength.
- In MLB, Houston’s Imai earned his first major-league win by throwing 5 2/3 scoreless innings with nine strikeouts against the Athletics in Sacramento, and in the NBA Chicago’s Yuki Kawamura logged 4 minutes 35 seconds with three points and one assist in a loss to the Knicks in New York.