
A prison guard has been sacked after engaging a prisoner in otaku-related conversation.
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As a result of the quake, eastern Japan’s major power company Tepco has announced it plans to introduce rolling blackouts throughout much of the region, the first since the end of WWII, for as much as 6 hours a day and possibly lasting until next year.
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The demand of parents that their palsy-afflicted son not be accorded “any special treatment” whilst they at the same time insist he attend a regular school and that the school provide a full-time nurse to take care of him has been generating controversy online.
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Not content with a devastating boycott of the Tokyo International Anime Fair, the anime industry has announced it will be holding a new event, the “Anime Contents Expo,” on the very same day as TAF and in neighbouring Chiba’s Makuhari Messe.
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The staff of a clinic have been arrested for performing coffee enemas on several schoolgirls.
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A boy who grew bored of stoning a homeless man instead opted to scald him with boiling water as he slept, saying it was “fun” watching his reaction.
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Japan has refused to allow top American porn star Paris Hilton to enter the country after her recent conviction for cocaine possession, turning her away at the airport after she arrived in a private jet.
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The 2010 Tokyo Game Show brings with it a slew of saucy female “companions” posing and cosplaying alluringly for the benefit of attendees – a photographic digest of the girls on offer from each company can be inspected below.
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A mangaka has been arrested for having paid sex with a schoolgirl.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 11, 2010 03:28 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Chiba, Crime, Food, Guro, Mental Illness, Murder, Police, Suicide, Theft

A prisoner has committed suicide by thrusting chopsticks into his own eyes.
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A gang of three boys has been arrested for 30 charges of rape and robbery, committed in a three week rampage which saw the gang target countless young women in a series of violent outrages.
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