Society

(Tokyo Reporter)

(Bloomberg)

(Yomiuri)

(AFP)

Prosecutors have indicted a suspected serial bag snatcher who was nicknamed "chameleon man" for trying to avoid being identified during a theft by wearing layers of T-shirts. (Asahi)

(Kyodo)

(UPI)

(BBC)

With South Korea's bustling Busan visible on a clear day, the Japanese island of Tsushima is again living out the centuries-old curse of being stuck between the nations. (AFP)

(Independent)

(Tokyo Reporter)

The red, double-decker Routemaster bus, a phased-out London icon, is gaining a second life in a Japanese city that believes the red road giant fits right in. (sfgate.com)

(Yomiuri)

(Japan Times)

(Kyodo)

Police in rural Japan are looking for a thief who has snatched dozens of graveyard urns, many of them carrying the remains of women, after residents reported the ashes of their loved ones had gone missing. (Reuters)

(Japan Times)

A British man living in the outskirts of Tokyo with the teenage Japanese wife he met over the internet, was arrested last night on suspicion of shaking their 12-day-old baby son to death. (Times Online)

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(Kyodo)