And finally… Japan ends ban on dancing

The ban meant public dancing was forbidden unless the venue held a licence and even these had to stop by midnight.

Lawmakers brought the rules in after World War Two in an attempt to crack down on dance halls which were operating as brothels.

Despite great changes since then the law remained on the statute books, although police frequently turned a blind eye to it being broken until the past decade when club raids became common again.

A campaign calling for the abolition of the the ban led by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto acquired 150,000 signatures.

The new law has now been ratified and will come into force in 2016 in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

A similar law still persists in Sweden where attempts to defeat it in the Riksdag failed.