Main events scheduled in Japan for Friday, Oct. 13:

-- Nara District Court to hold first pretrial proceedings for Tetsuya Yamagami, indicted on murder and other charges in connection with the killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

-- Nagoya District Court to hand down ruling on Ryoga Yoshino, who allegedly licked a tabletop soy sauce bottle at a Kura Sushi conveyer-belt sushi restaurant and posted a video of the act online.

==Kyodo

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