A 32-year-old mother was charged with attempted murder after dropping her 10-month old son from the 6th floor corridor outside their apartment Sunday night. Jinichi Otani was found by neighbors, who immediately called an ambulance. The baby was found lying near the building, and remains unconscious with a broken neck at a nearby hospital.

A Japanese soldier from World War II stationed in Burma (now Myanmar), sent a postcard to his friend was received after 64 years after it was sent. The postcard was kept by a former U. S. soldier and a Japanese exchange student. According to Mukogawa Women's University, the card traveled in three different countries and one state, including Burma, Nagasaki, Arizona and Hawaii before reaching Shizuo Nagano, 80, in southern Kochi prefecture.

A Japanese woman has invented a skirt which camouflages as a vending machine to ward off potential attackers. Aya Tsukioka's skirt can transform itself into a Coca Cola machine, reports the Daily Mail.

A man got the surprise of his life when he finally realized his body markings actually spelled Coca-Cola, a full 26 years after he had it inscribed on his chest. According to Vince Mattingley of Watford, Hertfordshire, he had originally asked for his name to be tattooed on his chest in Chinese characters after asking a staff at his favorite restaurant to write his name in Chinese symbols.

A postcard sent by a Japanese soldier from Burma during World War II has finally been received, 64 years after it was sent. The postcard traveled through Burma, Nagasaki, Arizona and Hawaii before reaching 80-year-old Shizuo Nagano in southern Kochi prefecture, according to Mukogawa Women's University. A student from the university was instrumental in the postcard reaching its final destination.