Tatsuya Ichihashi, who spent two years, seven months on the run from police after fleeing from his apartment where the body of Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker was found, reportedly showed no resistance when police apprehended him at a ferry terminal in Osaka this month.Full article

Hiroshi Maruya, an honorary director of Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima, was diagnosed with bladder cancer in April this year. He remembers a sign of his illness: a white toilet bowl stained red.Full article

Russian Consul General celebrates becoming dean of Kansai Consular Corps

Russian Consul General Ivan V. Prokhorov sings a song while playing guitar during a meeting of the Japan-Russia Salon held on Oct. 30 to congratulate him on assuming the post of dean of the Kansai Consular Corps. He sang a number of Japanese and Russian folk songs during the event.