
Hatsune Miku fans are rejoicing at the sight of the world’s first ita-airport, in the form of Miku’s descent upon Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport – including a full-size Miku statue which has otaku reaching for either their wallets or their cameras…
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Homura’s popularity amongst the armed forces of the world only seems to be growing – this time she seems to have found her way onto the side of a JSDF attack helicopter.
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Top Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific has been embroiled in a high altitude sex scandal after one of its pilots inadvertently leaked photographs of his stewardess girlfriend fellating him in the cockpit and posing salaciously about the plane.
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A video of a flying spherical reconnaissance drone developed by Japan’s military has lately been causing a stir online – the device makes for quite a spectacle.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 29, 2011 19:39 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Bizarre, China, Comparison, Copyright, Fraud, Hollywood, Made in China, TV

A Chinese state news broadcaster has apparently been caught passing off dogfight footage from the Hollywood movie “Top Gun” as footage of China’s latest fighter jet destroying a target drone in a live fire exercise.
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Queen of moeblobs Mio Akiyama has apparently found herself appropriated by Chinese otaku as an image character for their nation’s newly copied stealth plane, the Chengdu J-20.
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The Japanese have been banned from shipping packages of any significant size to the land of the free as the US believes they are likely a bunch of freedom-hating terrorists.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 14, 2010 04:29 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Apple, Bizarre, Crime, Kyoto, Law, Ninja, Police, Tourism, Weapons

Apple fuhrer Steve Jobs is reportedly enraged at having his ninja aspirations denied by Japanese customs, after they stymied his efforts to take shuriken out of the country on his private jet.
As retaliation he threatened he would “never come to a country like this again!”
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A Chinese low-cost airline is planning to run flights with standing room only tickets, with passengers being made to stand for the entire duration of their flight, allowing up to a 40% increase in human cargo.
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