Overnight attention stayed on live coverage of Dodgers-Brewers Game 4, with Ohtani hitting his first postseason three-run homer after 116 at-bats before Milwaukee rallied to sweep and end the three-peat bid.
By midday editors shifted to the Meteorological Agency's emergency warning for shaking from Hokkaido to Tokai, cancelled eight minutes later after a M6.9 quake off Kamchatka was overestimated as M9.9. Only Shindo 1 was observed in Hakodate. The agency held three press conferences, apologized, denied cyberattack involvement and acknowledged past safeguards had failed, while the alert briefly halted Tokaido Shinkansen and other transport.
Courts then took the lead as Kyoto District Court acquitted a Kudokai-linked executive in the 2013 Gyoza no Ohsho shooting for lack of proof, and the Supreme Court overturned the acquittal in the Lake Inawashiro boat deaths, finalizing a two-year term.