Daily brief
Japan is closely monitoring U.S. plans to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, with a Japanese professor calling the move extremely risky.
Sources say the intrusion at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo is not the first such incident.
Tokyo police detained 21 people in Shibuya and warned pharmacies about fake prescriptions.
A fake police officer issued fake tickets to cyclists in Tochigi.
Japan's military shift toward offensive capabilities undermines the pacifist constitution, and the Futenma base site has not yet been returned to Japan, 30 years on.