Cockroaches 'plague G-8 summit'

Cockroaches 'plague G-8 summit'

TOKYO (AFP): Fast-breeding giant cockroaches threaten to
plague world leaders at a Group of Eight summit to be held in
Japan from July 21-23, a Japanese newspaper said in an April
Fool's report on Saturday.

"Some of the cockroaches are reaching abnormal lengths of 35
centimeters and the government is concerned over its ability to
keep them from marring the event," said the Japan Times.

But a staff writer at the English-language newspaper, Kanako
Takahara, admitted the report, which had taken in many readers,
was a joke. April Fool's jokes are rare in the Japanese-language
press.