CHUGOKU The Hiroshima Municipal Government will launch an ordinance on July 1 requiring retailers in the city to introduce filtering for cell phones to prevent people under the age of 18 from viewing harmful information on the Internet, it has been learned. (1) [MAINICHI]

INTERNATIONAL China prepared Tuesday to welcome the first Japanese war ship to visit since World War II in a dramatic sign of improving relations between East Asia’s two major powers. [AFP]

KANSAI A Kobe woman who randomly attacked three other women at JR Osaka Railway Station has been arrested, police said. (1) [MAINICHI]

KANTO The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly’s environment and construction committee on Monday passed a bill that will revise a city ordinance to require major companies in Tokyo to cut carbon dioxide emissions, clearing the first hurdle in introducing the first such ordinance in the country. (1) [YOMIURI]

TECHNOLOGY Softbank, the carrier that won the coveted right to sell the iPhone in Japan, said Monday it will sell for 23,040 yen — comparable to the marked down U.S. price for the hit gadget. (3) [INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE]

POLITICS Australia will call for a complete halt to whaling this week at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Chile as Japan seeks permission to kill more of the animals, saying they eat too many fish. [BLOOMBERG]

POLITICS Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Monday he is thinking about raising the consumption tax rate sometime during the next two to three years. [YOMIURI]

NATIONAL Many people request ambulances for nonemergency purposes, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey of fire departments in 51 major cities. [YOMIURI]

RYUKYU Moritoshi Oshiro still bears the scars from the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. He walks with a limp and cannot see out of one eye, the result of beatings he endured despite his father’s now-famous efforts to protect the then 12-year-old boy. [ASAHI]

BUSINESS The ordinary Diet session that came to a close Saturday was characterized by a number of unprecedented events. [YOMIURI]

KANTO A Japanese fishing boat capsized after being hit by a wave in the Pacific Ocean east of Chiba Prefecture on Monday, leaving four crew members dead and 13 missing, Japan Coast Guard officials said. [MAINICHI]

POLITICS The government has given up on re-submitting its nomination of Keio University professor Kazuhito Ikeo for membership of the Bank of Japan’s Policy Board during an extraordinary Diet session expected to convene in late August, government sources said Monday. [KYODO]

POLITICS Japan has indicated to member countries of the International Whaling Commission that it may resume commercial whaling if the IWC fails to alleviate tensions between the pro- and antiwhaling camps before the end of its general meeting a year from now. [THE JAPAN TIMES]

BUSINESS Nearly 40 percent of local business leaders believe their regional economies are slowing down or deteriorating because of soaring prices of crude oil and raw materials, according to a recent Asahi Shimbun survey. [ASAHI]

KANSAI A man who suggested assassinating Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto in a message on an Internet bulletin board has been arrested, law enforcers in Osaka said. [MAINICHI]

KANSAI Police are poised to begin an investigation into former Nova Corp. President Nozomu Sahashi upon suspicion of embezzlement, sources said. [MAINICHI]

RYUKYU More than 5,000 people attended a ceremony in Itoman on Okinawa to mark the 63rd anniversary of the end of fighting on Okinawa during World War II, which left tens of thousands of civilians dead. [MAINICHI]

KYUSHU A 57-year-old man died after being bitten on the throat by a Tosa dog he had kept at his home in Mizumaki, Fukuoka Prefecture, police said. (1) [MAINICHI]

SCIENCE Japanese drug maker Astellas Pharma said on Monday it was seeking approval for an additional application of its key transplant drug in Japan. [REUTERS]

BUSINESS Japan’s government may signal it will consider cutting corporate taxes in an effort to encourage more foreign investment into an economy expected to grow at the slowest pace in five years this year. (1) [BLOOMBERG]