
A Japanese Diet member has narrowly escaped punishment after daring to take a photograph of Emperor Akihito.
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Japanese are wondering what has become of their politicians, after the latest resignation of a minister after only a week in office, for calling the evacuated reactor-despoiled towns of Fukushima “towns of death.”
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Tokyo fuhrer Shintaro Ishihara has paid his annual respects to Japanese war criminals at Yasukuni, saying Japan’s current government “is not Japanese” for choosing to stay away.
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Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party is set on passing a bill which would ban all loli material as child pornography, saying it promotes crimes against children.
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A DPJ politician who recently lost her seat has been ridiculed for accusing 2ch users of being paid to manipulate public opinion against the DPJ using their posts.
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Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan has stated he thinks the tsunami-induced crisis at the Fukushima nuclear reactors could in the worst case “ruin eastern Japan,” and that he is “incredibly knowledgeable about nuclear power.”
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The Tokyo gubernatorial race continues to go from bad to worse with one of the candidates publicly stating he will ban “violent” games if elected, saying they create murderers.
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Kanagawa governor Shigefumi Matsuzawa has announced his intent to run for the position of governor of Tokyo, with his current statements and past deeds indicating he would be an even worse disaster for the anime and game industry than the outgoing Ishihara.
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Tokyo’s 78-year-old governor Shintaro Ishihara has said he will not stand for election to a fourth term as Tokyo governor.
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Japan’s Minister of Justice has developed a novel argument against the death penalty – criminals die anyway, so why kill them?
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A few days after it stood by as the anime industry was humiliatingly singled out for a ban, the Japanese government is now announcing a plan to quadruple anime and game exports.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 15, 2010 17:43 JST
- Tags: Censorship, DPJ, Ero-manga, Law, LDP, Lolicon, Oppai, Otaku, Pantsu, Politics, Seifuku

Tokyo’s manga ban has been signed into law after passing a final vote, and is set to come into effect in 2011, with Tokyo governor Ishihara crowing that “Japan still has some common sense left after all!”
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