- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 16, 2012 21:53 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Food, Litigation, Nara, Osaka, Teachers, Theft

Even those familiar with the near legal invulnerability of Japanese teachers have been astonished by a court verdict which saw a teacher who stole ¥766 of food from a supermarket being awarded ¥18,000,000 after her employers had the temerity to attempt to punish her.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 11, 2012 02:41 JST
- Tags: Censorship, China, Courts, Litigation, Politics, PS3, Shanghai, Square Enix, Xbox 360

Square Enix is reportedly being sued in China for publishing a game which allows the player to kill Chinese, and which damages the image of that great nation by most unfairly depicting Shanghai as a squalid hotbed of criminality.
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In a highly unusual case of a defendant being found innocent in a Japanese court, a man charged with groping a girl has been cleared after a judge decided that he could not have dashed 6m and groped her all in the 1 second period he was out of view of a security camera – although the fact he was jailed for 6 months, as long as the sentence sought by prosecutors, rather renders the verdict moot.
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A teacher convicted of over a thousand counts of rape and sexual assault on his pupils has been sentenced to 4613 years in prison, only to have the sentence reduced by 4583 years on a technicality.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 20, 2012 20:43 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Law, Lolicon, Murder, Police, Rape, Sweden

A convicted murderer who violently raped a 12-year-old girl whilst on parole has lost his appeal to have his original 4 year sentence quashed, and will now face a staggering 5 year sentence for raping her, despite his claims that she smeared his semen on her underwear whilst she was masturbating in a stairwell, and that he had nothing to do with it.
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A youth who killed a housewife and her baby daughter and then proceeded to rape the woman’s corpse, in what he claimed was a ceremony intended to bring her back to life, has finally been sentenced to death after 12 years of trials and appeals.
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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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Japanese courts have ruled that a man with an artificial leg is still capable of raping a schoolgirl after all, after having previously quashed his conviction on the grounds that he had only one leg.
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An elementary school teacher has admitted to raping 12 girls, some as young as 11, even going so far as to rape one little girl the day before his own wedding.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 3, 2011 13:34 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Courts, Crime, Internet, Mental Illness, Schoolgirls, USA, Video Gallery, YouTube

A judge who was recorded viciously belting his disabled daughter for her illicit downloads has caused outrage online, not least because he specialises in presiding over domestic disputes.
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Unexpectedly for a game-based film, the casting of Hiroki Narimiya as Phoenix Wright (Naruhodō Ryūichi) in the upcoming movie adaptation of Capcom’s Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) series has been meeting with widespread approval online.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 23, 2011 15:40 JST
- Tags: AV, Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Incest, Loli, Lolicon, Rape, Taiwan

A brother who raped his little sister 22 times has been spared the maximum sentence by his own sister’s plea for leniency.
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