


The sexiness of the girls at the recent Tokyo Auto Salon 2013 has been causing a stir, with everything from a strip show to the obligatory itasha on display for car fanciers to gawk at and everyone else to photograph wildly.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Jan 11, 2013 23:56 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Gravure, Idol, Image Gallery, Marketing, Music, Oppai, Young Magazine

A raunchy photo of AKB48 idol Tomomi Kasai posing “hand bra” with a child providing the hands has led to Young Magazine withdrawing its latest issue from sale for being “inappropriate,” prompting accusations of “child pornography” and “child abuse” against her, AKB48 and the magazine itself.
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The saccharine intensity of popular AKB48 idol Haruka Shimazaki’s newly exposed chest has been turning heads online – with plenty of praise and envy at the fact she apparently lives in a doll house.
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Japanese are yet again aghast at the results of surveys demonstrating marriage in Japan is rather less monogamous than might be suspected.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 29, 2012 02:29 JST
- Tags: AV, China, Comparison, Idol, Otaku, Rankings, Sites, Sword Art Online, Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s otapedic tendencies have again been attracting attention, this time with a national comparison of the most viewed Wikipedia pages revealing the most viewed page on the Japanese edition in 2012 was a list of porn stars, followed by AKB48 and a long list of anime, as compared to the English version’s fascination with Facebook and the Chinese edition’s love of Japanese porn.
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Police are coming under fire for killing an anteater they captured by caging it outdoors in freezing temperatures, the intellectual strain of phoning the zoo which reported it missing apparently having proven too much for them.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2012 12:19 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Crime, Earthquakes, Fukushima, Litigation, Military, Politics, US Military, USA


US sailors who helped the quake-stricken Japanese as part of “Operation Tomodachi” are now suing them for exposing them to radiation.
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A top executive with Japan Rail has killed himself after being arrested for groping a schoolgirl, which he denied even in his suicide note.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 22, 2012 18:51 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Idol, J-pop, Marketing, Music, Oricon, Otaku, Rankings, Statistics

***48′s total dominance of 2012′s single charts has raised more than a few eyebrows amongst music lovers in Japan, with some voicing concern about the fact non-idol groups now barely feature at all…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 20, 2012 21:38 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Crime, Drugs, Internet, Law, Otaku, Police, Politics, Technology

Japanese cops have announced they have filed charges of promoting drug dealing against Hiroyuki, the infamous founder of Japan’s megaboard 2ch.net.
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SKE48 may not have the obsessively devoted fandom of AKB48, but as fans have been noting recently, they do have something else in abundance – ample cleavage, more evident than ever in “Deguchi Aki Selection 8,” which shows off 8 of them (plus Deguchi Aki) in some quite revealing outfits.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 18, 2012 06:50 JST
- Tags: DPJ, Gaikokujin, JRP, LDP, Mass Media, Military, Politics, USA, Video Gallery

The founder of what is now Japan’s third largest party, Tooru Hashimoto, has given an outraged response to the suggestion that any American could possibly call Japan right wing, saying a nation with such a huge army and nuclear weapons which brazenly violated the sovereignty of Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden has no business calling Japan right wing.
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