Timeline for October 2023

The company building after the “Johnny & Associates” name sign is removed. Photograph taken on October 6, 2023. (© Jiji)

Michael Leitch (third from right) and other members of the Japan team following its defeat against Argentina in Nantes, France, on October 8, 2023. (© Jiji)

Tanimura Shinji at a ceremony where he received a special letter of gratitude from the minister of justice on April 24, 2019. (© Jiji)

A smiling Fujii Sōta after he becomes the first player to hold all shōgi titles in Kyoto on October 11, 2023. (© Jiji)

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology Moriyama Masahito holds a Tokyo press conference concerning the court order request on October 13, 2023. (© Jiji)

Tanabe Osamu, head of the Japan Fair Trade Commission investigation bureau, announces the Google probe in Tokyo on October 23, 2023. (© Jiji)

Hakamada Iwao’s sister Hideko (left) at his retrial on October 27 in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture. (© Jiji)