1. A public affairs officer of the US Air Force’s 18th Wing has issued a comment to NHK saying the unit understands and shares the concerns of the community about the alleged sexual assault by one of its Wing members. Brennon Washington was indicted for sexually assaulting an underage girl in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. 2. The flowers of a lotus grown from a seed excavated from a layer of earth dating back about 200 years are now in full bloom at an ancient Buddhist temple in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan. Byodoin Temple in Uji City, dating back to the 11th Century in the late Heian Period, is listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. The temple places pots of lotus flowers around its precinct at this time of the year. One variety, called the Byodoin Temple Lotus, has successfully been grown from a seed obtained during excavation of a pond in the compound 25 years ago.
3. Japanese police have found three people without vital signs near the crater of Mount Fuji. Police found three people collapsed on the Shizuoka Prefecture side of the crater. They were reportedly found without vital signs.
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