Japanese artist known for her vagina-shaped kayak was found guilty by a Tokyo court for obscenity. Megumi Igarashi was required to pay a fine for distributing obscene images to raise fund for her kayak.
A former adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has praised apartheid as a model for how Japan could expand immigration, prompting the government's top spokesman on Friday to emphasize that Japan's immigration policy was based on equality.
Waving banners and banging tambourines, hundreds of Japanese took to the streets of Tokyo to protest a strict new state-secrets law which took effect on Wednesday that critics charge will help conceal government misdeeds and limit press freedom.