⌨Obituaries for Isao Harimoto, 86, displaced other news. NHK, Asahi, Yomiuri, Sankei and TBS reported the death of professional baseball's all-time leader with 3,085 hits, the first to reach 3,000. Coverage moved from records and the 'hit-manufacturing machine' nickname to biography: Hiroshima bombing at age five, Korean roots, the 'Katsu!' television persona, and peace advocacy in his final days.
Weather warnings carried over from the Shonai flooding and Tokyo downpours, with forecasts of warning-level rain on the 11th for Tokai, Kinki and Koshin and analysis of the stalled cumulonimbus behind the Chiba deluge.
Attention also turned abroad to the Republican convention opening ahead of U.S. midterms, with Trump's pledge of a 770,000-yen dividend per adult, and to business, with Apple's foldable iPhone Duo priced from 364,800 yen.