At the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, the mayor of the atomic-bombed city, Kazumi Matsui, gave the world leaders a tour around Peace Memorial Park while advocating for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
In Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 5–1 at Dodger Stadium, sweeping the series 4–0 and advancing to the World Series for the second consecutive year.
On February 15, 2025, news flashed across the world: a Japanese teenage boy had been rescued from the depths of Southeast Asia’s criminal underworld. The 17-year-old was freed from a fraud compound in Myanmar’s border region, operated by an international cyber scam organization. According to authorities, he had been lured to Myanmar by a Japanese man and forced to participate in fraud schemes once there.