Dejima Dai, head of comprehensive planning (50), says they plan to use AI to summarize recorded customer conversations, link those summaries to customer data, and automatically generate proposals and similar documents.

He added that they also want to use AI to streamline loan-approval reviews and compliance checks.

Police learned on the 24th from investigators that a woman in her 30s from Asahikawa, Hokkaido, went missing and that her husband, a male employee in his 30s who works at Asahiyama Zoo in the same city, told Hokkaido police in a voluntary interview that he "abandoned his wife's body in the zoo's incinerator."

Hokkaido police are investigating it as a possible corpse-abandonment case.

At the outset, Vice Justice Minister Hidehiro Mitani said that leaving the scope of voice-related protections to be clarified in court would place a heavy burden on voice actors and others forced into litigation.

He stressed that the panel will clarify, as much as possible, whether rights have been violated and the scope in which damages can be claimed.

Tied for third, one stroke back, were Ren Yonezawa, Ryota Wakahara, Riki Kawamoto and Song Yeong-han (Korea).

Five players, including Yoshinori Fujimoto, were tied for seventh at 11 under overall, and Naoto Nakanishi, who started the day in the lead, dropped to 26th.

In the women's field, Serena Aoki posted a second straight 71 and stood 72nd at 2 under.

This tournament is being contested with no cut.