Indian business school names Hindu monkey god as its chairman - Mainichi Daily News

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Yakuza drug smuggler facing life behind bars vanishes from unguarded hospital - Mainichi Daily News

KAMAGAYA, Chiba -- An elderly yakuza given a life sentence for importing massive amounts of speed from North Korea is now free after walking away from the unguarded Kamagaya hospital where he was supposed to be undergoing treatment, Chiba Prefectural Police said.

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BBC NEWS | Americas | False fax allows US prison escape

A prisoner in the US state of Kentucky was mistakenly freed after a phoney fax ordering his release was sent from a nearby grocery store.

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Does religion do more harm than good? | The Japan Times Online

LONDON -- In an opinion poll published in Britain recently, 82 percent of the people polled said that they thought religion does more harm than good.

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Malaysian 'midget gang' meets its match - World - theage.com.au

Malaysian police detained an eight-member gang of small-sized robbers dubbed the "midget gang," who allegedly confessed to committing 14 break-ins over the past three months, a news report said today.

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Mission invisible | Art & Architecture | Guardian Unlimited Arts

Mission invisible When first world war soldiers wanted to conceal themselves, they turned to cubism - and camouflage was born. Jonathan Jones on the dark, troubling life of the pattern of war.

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Number of sexless Japanese couples surges to 34 percent - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

Some 34 percent of married Japanese couples have sex less than once a month, a government poll has found.

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Rat curry served to 18 people at train station noodle stand - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

A curry that was boiled up with a rat in the pot has been served to 18 people at a noodle stand at JR Shin-Koiwa Station in Tokyo, the operator of the stand said.

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Israel accused of using Palestinian children as human shields | Israel and the Middle East | Guardian Unlimited

The Israeli army is investigating whether its troops used two Palestinian children as human shields during a house search operation in the West Bank following claims by the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem.

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BBC NEWS | Business | Lacklustre robber asks for advice

A would-be robber failed in his bid to raid a Japanese bank after asking staff for tips on how to carry out the crime, according to the Reuters news agency.

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Opposition hasn't got a clue in battle against LDP | The Japan Times Online

Last year was a bad one for the Democratic Party of Japan. Its troubles started when DPJ lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata implied that the son of Tsutomu Ta-kebe, a big shot in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was involved in a money-for-favors deal.

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CIA files reveal militarist plot to kill Yoshida in '52 | The Japan Times Online

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) A group of former high-ranking Imperial Japanese Army officers plotted in July 1952 to assassinate Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, according to recently declassified U.S. documents.

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Walking tall in the Edo Period | The Japan Times Online

How did "Memoirs of a Geisha" ("Sayuri" here in Japan) get it so drearily wrong -- and Mika Ninagawa's new film, "Sakuran," get it so gloriously right?

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Declassified CIA records reveal American hand in birth of Japan's right wing - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

Col. Masanobu Tsuji was a fanatical Japanese militarist and brutal warrior, hunted after World War II for massacres of Chinese civilians and complicity in the Bataan Death March. And then he became a U.S. spy.

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Finland probes N Korea train row

The Finnish government is investigating a complaint from North Korea that two of its diplomats were thrown off a train for not having tickets.

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Horny housewives heading off to Bangkok to grab a slice of the Thai life - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

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