Famous blondes such as Marilyn Monroe or even Pamela Anderson might be the symbol of idolization for many young women around the world - but not in Japan, where women prefer darker, more sophisticated hair colors. It was only ten years ago that fair-haired women were seen all over the streets of Tokyo and on newsstand fashion magazines, but that trend is now a thing of the past. The only-fair haired women now are foreign models.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi plans to introduce a bill to parliament that would allow women to take the throne. Existing rules that permit only men to become emperors are proving problematic for the royal family as no boys have been born into the imperial family for 40 years, reports BBC News.

Japan's fishing industry is up in arms as giant jellyfish lessens their daily catch. "It's a terrible problem. They're like aliens," Noriyuki Kani of the fisheries federation in Toyama, northwest of Tokyo, tells Reuters.

A chuck of ice falling from the sky narrowly misses players on a golf course near Tokyo. Saitama prefectural [state] police spokesman Masahiko Kuwashima ays that authorities are investigating the bizarre incident.