Police on Monday arrested a 43-year-old man for forging a medical license and conducting health examinations on some 2,300 people at a Tokyo hospital for more than one year.

Anti-whaling campaigners Sea Shepherd threw brown envelopes containing a white powder and bottles of stinging acid onto a Japanese whaling ship off Antarctica on Monday, hurting three crew members.

Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis destroyer Atago collided with a small fishing boat in the Pacific off the coast of Chiba Prefecture early Tuesday morning. The two fishermen aboard are missing.