Overnight attention centered on the U.S. Federal Reserve's 0.25-point hike, its first in over three years, with papers noting unanimous inflation concerns, Trump's demand for cuts and yen weakening to 156. By morning focus shifted entirely to the launch of the second Takaichi reshuffled Cabinet, foreshadowed the previous day. One-by-one confirmations retained the core — Kihara, Motegi, Katayama, Koizumi, Akazawa, Kiuchi, Ueno and Onoda — while naming Yani to agriculture, Hosono to reconstruction, Sasakawa to environment and Ishin's Nakatsukasa to regulatory reform, and dropping Hayashi. In the evening Takaichi presented it as a decision, challenge and execution cabinet marking a new coalition stage. Coverage turned to management: published mandates, gag-order appointments, merged portfolios, and criticism over lack of freshness, sidelining a rival, past scandals and record-low 44% support.

Typhoon No.25 nearing Ogasawara and SoftBank's third straight Pacific League title closed the day.