Overnight a stalled front brought record short-time rain to Nagasaki, with about 110mm in an hour near Omura, prompting linear-rainband forecasts across Fukuoka, Saga, Kumamoto and Nagasaki. Evacuation orders followed in Tara town and then all of Kumamoto city, covering more than 315,000 households, as outlets warned of landslides and flooding while Typhoon No.26 strengthened toward Okinawa.
By midday attention swung to Gunma, where police arrested the 30-year-old former husband of the victim's eldest daughter at a pachinko parlor in Takasaki over the Sept. 25 killing of a 52-year-old woman in Ota and the stabbing of her son. He admitted the allegations.
In the evening focus returned to politics, with Takaichi seeking to dispel alliance doubts after Trump's briefing on the Xi meeting, and weekend polls showing cabinet support rebounding to 45-51% despite 68% disapproval of slush-fund-linked appointments in the reshuffle.