Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Himino said his views on the economy and prices have not materially changed since the July policy meeting.

Zhipu released GLM-5.3 Flash, a lightweight flagship model positioned to rival DeepSeek V4 Flash. The company says inference is served by a cluster using more than 100,000 domestically produced accelerator cards. Compute suppliers are reported to include Huawei, Moore Threads and Hygon; Zhipu declined to comment. In technical documentation Zhipu said the cluster's "hardware efficiency and per-token cost are already comparable to mainstream NVIDIA GPUs," but it did not specify card models.

Per the Marine Disaster Emergency Plan, the National Marine Forecasting Center has issued the highest (red) wave alert. Typhoon No.18 Sader (strong typhoon) is approaching the Zhejiang–Fujian coast and coincides with an astronomical high tide. Northern Zhejiang and Fujian coasts may face compounded wind, rain, waves and tide; storm surge superposed on the astronomical high tide risks seawater backflow and flooding of low-lying coastal areas in Zhejiang.