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Last Saturday night, 70,000 people gathered at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama to hear the results of an election for one of Japan's most famous institutions. (New York Times)

Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Tuesday arrested three suspects, including two members of a the Inagawa-kai organized crime group, for the alleged prostitution of a 15-year-old runaway girl in Yokohama. (Tokyo Reporter)

BBC Worldwide is teaming up with Sega Corp. to create a multi-sensory theme park that will use cutting-edge technology to allow visitors to experience the natural environment and the wildlife that inhabits the planet. (telegraph.co.uk)

African and Japanese leaders have wrapped up their 3-day meeting in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, by adopting a declaration to promote foreign investment in Africa. (NHK)

Japan is planning to mobilize all possible measures through public-private partnerships in a bid to promote trade with and investment in Africa, which is attracting strong attention as a growth market. (Jiji Press)

Japan unveiled a new five-year aid package for Africa on Saturday worth up to 3.2 trillion yen in government and private-sector assistance, vowing to help the resource-rich continent improve security so that more Japanese companies can do business there. (Kyodo)

Officials at Yokohama City Hall said Monday the city has reduced the number of children on nursery school waiting lists to zero from 179 as of April 1, meeting its 2010 target of doing so in three years. (Japan Times)

Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Sunday announced the arrest of three transvestite Korean nationals for allegedly offering sexual services in Yokohama’s Naka Ward. (Tokyo Reporter)

Japanese police have arrested a US sailor on suspicion of trespassing into an elementary school in Zushi City, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Yokohama. (NHK)

MRI International Inc. frequently entertained its customers with drinks and dinners at luxury hotels in an apparent effort to maintain their trust even after their dividend payments became irregular or stopped, it has been learned. (Yomiuri)

Some new large cruise ships are too tall to pass under the Yokohama Bay Bridge, and the Yokohama city government is concerned about problems this may cause at the port. (Yomiuri)

Police on Tuesday said they are looking for a man whom they believe was responsible for four muggings which took place on the streets of Yokosuka and Yokohama on Monday morning. (Japan Today)

Health authorities on Tuesday were trying to determine what killed 17 crows and one pigeon whose bodies were found on the street in Yokohama earlier in the day. (Japan Today)

Early Monday morning, Kanagawa Prefectural Police busted a Yokohama game center and arrested one employee on gambling charges. (Tokyo Reporter)

Ten people have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling about 240 kilograms of stimulant drugs with an estimated street value of 16.8 billion yen into Japan, it was learned Monday. (Yomiuri)

A 39-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly paid a 14-year-old girl for sex. (Japan Today)

Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Thursday busted a specialty hostess club in Yokohama staffed with high-school girls in uniform on illegal employment charges. (Tokyo Reporter)

Japanese researchers say they have successfully killed cells blamed for causing a type of leukemia common in adults. They say the discovery brings a complete cure for the disease closer. (NHK)

Shinjuku and Yokohama have received a healthy boost of visitors. Kawagoe in Saitama Prefecture not so much. (Yomiuri)

Police said Thursday they have arrested a dog owner in Yokohama on a charge of accidental infliction of injury after his dog bit and injured a woman. (Japan Today)

Officials in the Japanese city of Yokohama have been left red-faced after mistakenly announcing the launch of a North Korean missile to 40,000 followers on Twitter. (abc.net.au)

Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Monday raided a Yokohama casino for providing illegal gambling. (Tokyo Reporter)

The Japan Meteorological Agency said Friday that cherry blossoms came into full bloom in central Tokyo and the cities of Miyazaki, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Kochi and Yokohama the same day. (Jiji Press)

Tokyo Gas has unveiled the world's largest underground liquefied natural gas storage tank to media. In Japan, demand for the resource has been rising as most of the country's nuclear power stations were shut down after the 2011 disaster. (NHK)

The planned connection between the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro's Fukutoshin Line is intensifying competition among commercial facilities in Shinjuku and Shibuya, both major shopping districts in Tokyo. (Yomiuri)