Main events scheduled for Friday, June 24

Main events scheduled in Japan for Friday, June 24: — Nationwide consumer price index for May to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications at 8:30 a.m. — Top court to hand down ruling over tweets showing a man’s arrest history.

Former Kyodo News President Yamanouchi dies at 81

Toyohiko Yamanouchi, a former president of Kyodo News, died of stroke at a hospital in Tokyo last Friday, the company said. He was 81. Yamanouchi, hailing from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, served as president of the Japanese news agency from Decembe…