Jan 3, 2013 | Daily Yomiuri
'Chino-pan' fatally hits man with car
A 38-year-old man was fatally struck Wednesday by a car driven by former Fuji Television announcer Shio Yokote, 35, known by her birth name Chino, in a parking lot of an accommodation facility in the city.
One cool (or crazy) thing: Bird Apartment is a high-rise for birds -- and a birdwatcher
A treehouse with 78 nest spaces is "collective housing for many birds and one person," according to Tokyo design studio Nendo, which created it on commission for Momofuku Ando Center, a nature conservancy in a hillside forest in Komoro, Japan.