Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~ premieres on Japanese television, continuing studio MOTHER's light-novel adaptation about a reinvented high schooler juggling confessions from two of her school's most popular students.

Senator Bernie Sanders administered the public oath on the steps of City Hall, hours after Attorney General Letitia James swore Mamdani in at 12:01 a.m. in the disused City Hall subway station. He is the city's first Muslim mayor and the first of South Asian descent.

The base subway, local bus and Access-A-Ride fare rose 10 cents to $3 and the express bus fare to $7.25, while OMNY's weekly fare cap of $35 became permanent in place of MetroCard unlimited passes.

Ikoku Nikki premieres, a Shuka-animated drama adapting Akane Torikai's manga about a reclusive novelist who unexpectedly becomes guardian to her orphaned teenage niece.

A 243-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma, Aomori, sold for a record JPY 510.3 million at Toyosu Market's first auction of 2026, bought by Kiyomura, the owner of the Sushi Zanmai chain.

Miami-Dade County and Royal Caribbean Group broke ground on a $345 million single-berth cruise terminal able to process about 7,000 passengers per ship call, with a multi-level garage and a ground-level intermodal hub, sized for Icon-class ships. Demolition of the terminal that stood on the site began in July 2025 and the new complex is slated for completion in late 2027.

Johnson & Johnson signed a voluntary most-favored-nation drug-pricing agreement with the Trump administration, selling medicines through TrumpRx.gov and to Medicaid at prices comparable to other developed countries in exchange for an exemption from pharmaceutical tariffs, and announced two new US plants in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein announced that Johnson & Johnson will build a second multibillion-dollar plant in Wilson, a drug product manufacturing facility for cancer and neurology medicines expected to create up to 500 jobs, beside the $2 billion biologics campus it is already building there.

Mayeli Ho and Katie Felix sued Vuori in San Diego federal court, alleging it miscalculated overtime premiums, the claim at the heart of the Northern District case dismissed a day earlier.

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority moved the Long Bridge Project into full construction, opening daytime work windows through the Washington, D.C. construction zone because the District's noise and vibration rules bar the work at night. A new two-track bridge beside the century-old Long Bridge will give a continuous four-track corridor between Arlington and L'Enfant Plaza, relieving the worst passenger-rail bottleneck on the East Coast.

On the first morning of the ICR Conference, Lululemon said fourth-quarter revenue and EPS would come in toward the top of its $3.500-$3.585 billion and $4.66-$4.76 ranges after the holidays.

A proposed class action in Manhattan says Oracle hid that it needed to borrow heavily again for AI data centers when it sold $18 billion of notes and bonds.

US envoy Steve Witkoff announced the second phase of Trump's 20-point Gaza plan, moving 'from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction' under a 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee.

The Netflix original anime Love Through A Prism (Prism Rondo) begins streaming, a Wit Studio-produced coming-of-age drama set at a London art academy in the early 1900s.