To prove true to his girlfriend, a Japanese man who stole 340,000 yen ($2,300) from a post office returned more money than he stole. The 33-year-old stole the money at knife-point from a post office in western Tokyo in March. When he repented he went back to the post office at the end of May and left 350,000 yen in an envelope on the counter before running off, as was "sorry for what he had done", the Mainichi newspaper quoted the man as saying.

An unemployed man in Japan goes to the bank with an intention of looting it and asks the teller, "Any idea how you rob a bank?"The teller alerted another staff member, who asked the man to leave. "He left quietly when asked to," the Reuters news agency quotes a police spokesman as saying.

A former solider in the Japanese Imperial Army, who hadn't been seen by his family since he went off to fight in the Second World War and was declared dead in 2000, has resurfaced in Ukraine and is returning to Japan to see his relatives after 60 years. Ishinosuke Uwano, now 83, is expected to arrive in Japan tomorrow, accompanied by his Ukrainian son, to visit his surviving relatives in Iwate, about 290 miles north-east of Tokyo.

Tokyo, Japan (AHN)-A Japanese Buddhist priest, arrested on suspicion of having paid for sex with a teenage girl, says he was under stress and had given in to lust, Reuters reports.

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.