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  8 University Students Injured After Classmate 'All of a Sudden' Started Swinging Hammer: Report

  A South Korean student was arrested after swinging a hammer during a class, injuring eight students.

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  American Tourist Used Fingernails to Carve Initials into Sacred Japanese Temple: Police

  An American tourist was arrested after he allegedly used his fingernails to carve five letters into a gate at the Meiji Jingu Shrine.

• Tokyo Olympic Medals To Be Made From Mobile Phones

  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.

• Vagina-Shaped Boat Artist Found Guilty of Obscenity by Tokyo Court

  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.

• Japan PM ex-adviser praises apartheid in embarrassment for Abe

  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.

• Strict new Japan secrets law takes effect amid protests

  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.

• Fukushima workers still in murky labor contracts: Tepco survey

  The number of workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant on false contracts has increased in the last year, the station operator said, highlighting murky labor conditions at the site despite a pledge to improve the work environment.

• North Korea's 'princess' moves closer to center of power

  In her slim-fitting trouser suits and black-heeled shoes, Kim Yo Jong cuts a contrasting figure to her pudgy older brother, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

• U.S. envoys to Japan, China, South Korea meet in Tokyo, see officials

  U.S. ambassadors to Japan, China and South Korea are holding a regular meeting in Tokyo this week to discuss regional issues and are meeting a variety of experts and officials including Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, a spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Tokyo said on Friday.

• Japan student suspected of trying to join Islamic State

  Tokyo police are investigating the possibility that a Japanese student tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday, as the United States carries out air strikes on militant targets.

• Costs, politics erode chances for a Tokyo casino by 2020

  Plans to open Japan's first casino in Tokyo before the 2020 Olympics are becoming increasingly unlikely, with developers facing skyrocketing building costs and a city government that no longer considers casino development an economic priority.

• Japan, North Korea to meet next week on abductees

  Japanese and North Korean officials will meet next week for an update on the North's probe into the fate of Japanese citizens it kidnapped decades ago, Japan's top government spokesman said on Thursday.

• Taiwan government investigates Xiaomi on potential cyber security concerns

  The Taiwanese government is investigating whether Xiaomi Inc [XTC.UL], China's leading smartphone company by domestic shipments, is a cyber security threat and will make a decision within three months.

• Abe becomes first Japanese PM to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years

  Shinzo Abe on Sunday became the first Japanese prime minister to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years, on the second leg of a South Asian tour that sought to assert Tokyo's interest in a region where it has ceded influence to China.