A Chinese man, 41, who crashed into a police car injuring 2 police officers on Sunday in Kachidoki, Tokyo, was arrested Monday on suspicion of violating the Law on Dangerous Driving Causing Death or Injury and the Road Traffic Law (hit-and-run).

A woman in her 20s with measles visited Den-en-Chofu Central Hospital in Ota Ward, Tokyo, multiple times in January, but she was not diagnosed with the disease until her visit on Feb. 2.

Four yakuza group members from Chiba Prefecture were arrested on Monday on suspicion of trespassing after being found watching a professional baseball game at the Tokyo Dome stadium in Tokyo last September. The Tokyo Dome City prohibits members of yakuza organized crime groups from entering.

A diver died Saturday while he was working on a survey at the Chosei undersea coal mine off the coast of Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

According to the results of a public opinion survey announced Saturday, South Korea’s favorability toward Japan exceeded 50% for the first time since the survey started being held in fiscal 2014. The survey was conducted by the Japan Press Research Institute.

An online service that lets users browse the spines of books at public libraries in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, will be launched this year.

The Democratic Party for the People had a mediocre showing in the House of Representatives election on Sunday, although DPFP executives won single-seat constituencies and the party won more seats than it had before the election.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is set to ramp up high-level diplomacy following the House of Representatives election.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday vowed to push through key policy measures pledged in the Liberal Democratic Party’s election platform, after obtaining a mandate from the public in Sunday’s House of Representatives election.

The Liberal Democratic Party secured 316 seats — the highest postwar total for any party — in Sunday’s House of Representatives election. After results were finalized on Monday, the party was up by 118 seats from before the lower house’s dissolution. One seat came from a candidate the party endorsed after he was elected.

Centrist Reform Alliance coleaders Yoshihiko Noda and Tetsuo Saito announced Monday that they would step down after the opposition party suffered a crushing defeat in Sunday’s House of Representatives election.

The voter turnout in the single-seat constituency segment of the House of Representative election on Sunday was 56.26%, according to the data released Monday by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.