KANTO Former Tokyo public school teachers denied post-retirement reemployment due to their refusal to sing the “Kimigayo” national anthem in schools appealed on Tuesday a Tokyo District Court ruling on their damages suit. [KYODO]

KANTO A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer collided with a fishing boat early Tuesday morning in the Pacific off the coast of Chiba Prefecture, the Japan Coast Guard said. [KYODO]

KANTO The education board of Kanagawa Prefecture said Thursday it has decided to make Japanese history compulsory at all prefecture-run high schools from fiscal 2013 in the first such move in the country. [KYODO]

KANTO A father in Tokyo is believed to have killed his mother and wife with a hatchet and nearly severed the wrists of his son before committing suicide, police said. [ASAHI]

KANTO An ultrarightist who threw a Molotov cocktail at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo before attempting to commit suicide by “harakiri” has been arrested, police said. [MAINICHI]

KANTO A 13-year-old girl was slashed on the leg by an assailant as she was walking to school on a road in Sugito, Saitama Prefecture on Thursday. (1) [MAINICHI]

KANTO The Kanagawa prefectural education board decided Monday to continue collecting the names of teachers who refuse to stand when the “Kimigayo” national anthem is sung in school ceremonies, board officials said. (1) [THE JAPAN TIMES]

KANTO At least 100 people were injured in the Tokyo area and traffic was snarled after snow blanketed wide areas of the Pacific side of central and eastern Japan on Sunday. [THE JAPAN TIMES]

KANTO The Tokyo metropolitan government said it will spend 1 billion yen to create Japan’s first emergency information integration system using mobile phone technology to contain damage caused by a catastrophic earthquake. [ASAHI]

KANTO The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper has decided to suspend a reporter who wrote an article on the academic degrees of educators at Kanazawa University based on Internet information without contacting the university to confirm the facts, newspaper officials said. [MAINICHI]

KANTO Ten people in Chiba Prefecture have fallen ill after eating Chinese-made dumplings that were found to contain traces of an insecticide. (2) [MAINICHI]

KANTO Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo plans to exhibit an Asian black bear in hibernation starting next month so visitors can see it directly, becoming the first zoo in Japan to do so. [THE JAPAN TIMES]

KANTO A man was arrested in Kawasaki Monday for fatally bashing his teenage son with a clothes pole and his fists, then leaving the boy for dead in the family bathroom. [MAINICHI]

KANTO An elderly man died Sunday after he was struck by a train at a crossing between Fuchu and Higashi-Fuchu stations on the Keio Line in western Tokyo. [YOMIURI]

KANTO A middle-aged man was fatally stabbed in an apartment building in an affluent part of Ota Ward, Tokyo on Saturday. [MAINICHI]

KANTO The Yokohama District Court on Friday sentenced two former university rugby players to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for growing marijuana in their dormitory. [YOMIURI]

KANTO Meiji University has decided to dissolve the school’s long-established cheering club after a 21-year-old member committed suicide because he was bullied. [MAINICHI]

KANTO A 43-year-old woman in western Tokyo has been arrested after refusing to let municipal officials enter her home to probe suspected abuse of her 85-year-old father, police said Monday. [THE JAPAN TIMES]

KANTO The Saitama prefectural police have taken into custody four middle school girls and a high school girl on suspicion of violating the Internet dating site control law by posting online messages offering themselves for prostitution. (1) [YOMIURI]

KANTO Tokyo-based Singpoosha Publishing Co. has revealed it received about 1 billion yen in payments to publish self-financed works from about 1,000 contracted writers, although it did not publish them. [YOMIURI]