The US magazine Time has included tennis star Osaka Naomi on its list of the 100 most influential people for the second year in a row.
Osaka recently won her second US Open title. She was included among the "Icons" on the list for 2020 released on Tuesday.
Sources say former Justice Minister Kawai Katsuyuki was found to have given money to local politicians in Hiroshima on multiple occasions to secure votes for his wife Kawai Anri, who won a seat in last July's Upper House election.
Both were formerly with the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party. They are suspected of giving a total of 25 million 700,000 yen or about 240,000 dollars to 94 local politicians and executives of their supporters' groups.
This is the Mazda Vision-Cosmo from designer Yi Dong and while a vehicle resembling it is unlikely to be produced by the Japanese carmaker, we think it looks utterly superb.