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Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Tokyo 2020 Games will be made from recycled mobile phones. Are you Japanese and planning to change mobile phones? You could opt to donate your device to be recycled into medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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.