Society

(Gadling)

A Japanese man who stole cash from a store by brandishing a knife turned himself in only five minutes later, saying he wanted to be punished, police said Monday. (AFP)

'The quickest way to beauty is to sweat." So goes the battle cry in a recent issue of Anan, Tokyo's most influential women's magazine. A year ago this same publication had boldly endorsed sex as the surefire way of attaining and maintaining a beautiful body. (International Herald Tribune)

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(Japan Times)

I have spent most of the past 15 years in the dark side of the rising sun. Until three years ago, I was a crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, and covered a roster of characters that included serial killers who doubled as pet breeders, child pornographers who abducted junior high-school girls, and the John Gotti of Japan. (Washington Post)

(Reuters)

Yemeni tribesmen have released two Japanese women holidaymakers who were kidnapped Wednesday while on their way to a tourist site in the region of Marib, a tribal chief said. (AFP)

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(Yomiuri)

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