More than 200 copies of books about Anne Frank, including copies of the diary the Jewish teenager wrote in hiding during the second world war, have been vandalised in libraries across Tokyo. At three libraries in Shinjuku ward, 10-20 pages were torn from The Diary of a Young Girl, biographies of Frank and books about Nazi persecution of Jews, leaving 39 books "unusable", archives director Kaori Sh
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