A Tokyo man, who was perfectly sober, led police on a chase to avoid a drunk-driving checkpoint and ended up crashing his car.

Police in Ikeda pursued the 44-year-old man and found his car about a half a mile from the checkpoint, overturned in a dry riverbed. The man said he was afraid of having to take a breath-test.

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.

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.

Students can typically forget a number of things when they go to school, namely their books, notes, or term papers. But the one thing many universities are certain that students never forget is their cell phones - and that is why Japanese universities have decided to incorporate student identification cards on their phones.

From next April, all new students at Kanagawa Institute of Technology near Tokyo will carry an ID on their phone that lets them register for classes, open locked doors and surf the Internet for school-related information.

Police arrested a Buddhist monk Wednesday for growing marijuana near the Eikoji shrine in Japan.

Michimaru Obara, 48, is suspected of growing approximately 5.3 pounds of marijuana, according to a police official who declined to be named, citing policy.