- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 11, 2012 20:42 JST
- Tags: BDSM, Bizarre, Crime, Exhibitionism, Fetish, Hokkaido, Police, Prostitution, Sapporo

Police have busted a naked policeman found tied up on stage in a BDSM sex club, charging him with public indecency – apparently on the grounds that the club was not a properly lisensed brothel.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 11, 2012 11:53 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Fuji TV, Internet, Korea, Marketing, Mass Media, Politics, TV, USA, VIP Quality

2ch has taken the unusual step of fighting back against the wicked Korean fifth column it believes is behind most of the ills of Japanese society by producing some English language propaganda of its own, targeted at American anime fans.
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An elementary school teacher who raped 5 of his pupils aged from 8 to 12 a total of 37 times faces a possible 30 year prison sentence.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 3, 2012 18:17 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Bizarre, Crime, Idol, Marketing, Mental Illness, Onanism, Otaku, Prostitution


Scandalous allegations about what goes on at idol handshaking events are once again being made, this time describing the extremes of perversion some ultra-creepy otaku engage in at the expense of their beloved idols.
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Japanese women are traditionally thought to have a strong preference for (relatively) tall men, but if the below ranking of the advantages of men of low stature is anything to go by, even small men may still be in with a chance…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 31, 2012 21:30 JST
- Tags: Crime, Hikikomori, Mental Illness, Murder, NEETs, Otaku, Suginami, Suicide, Tokyo

A hikikomori who carved up his brothers with a kitchen knife and then hanged himself after his twin brother dared to tell him to get a job has been highlighting the dangers of hikikomori interventions…
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Police have arrested an 18-year-old boy for having sex with a 17-year-old girl, charging him with child prostitution.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 25, 2012 10:57 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Animals, Bizarre, Crime, Guro, Internet, Kawasaki, Neko, Police

A man charged with animal abuse for torturing kittens to death has been re-arrested and charged with fraud after outraged cat lovers submitted a petition to police demanding harsher punishment.
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Tokyo faces a 75% chance of a magnitude 7 quake in the next 4 years, say researchers, a figure much higher than the government’s previous estimate of 70% in the next 30 years.
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Japanese police insistence that a man found dead with his penis severed and thrown under his bed was a clear case of suicide seems to be hardening, with investigators unable to find any evidence that his death was suspicious, and with one expert even suggesting that “he may have thought it was a monster and tried to cut it off.”
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Police have warned the public about a man who called a schoolgirl cute.
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Japanese police have uncovered what they think may be a highly unusual and doubtless unbelievably agonising case of suicide by penis auto-severance.
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