
The appearance of Saber in a French Japanese conversation phrase book and Haruhi and her minions in a Japanese social education tome have been causing some astonishment online.
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A teacher who included such searching questions as “what is the name of my cat?” and “what is your name?” in a midterm science test has been told to stop it.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 8, 2010 04:30 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crossdressing, Education, Loli, Medical, Mental Illness, Saitama, School, Shota

Japanese schools are struggling to accommodate skyrocketing diagnoses of “gender identity disorder,” which have seen boys as young as 8 attend school clad in skirts and said to be “girls.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Sep 20, 2009 09:36 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crossdressing, Education, Loli, Medical, Mental Illness, School, Shota, UK

Another school has been thrown into chaos with the surprise announcement that a 9-year-old boy will henceforth be a girl.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Sep 19, 2009 06:58 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crossdressing, Education, Loli, Medical, Mental Illness, School, Shota, UK

A school descended into chaos after a 12-year-old boy returned to school after the holidays as a girl, with teachers ordering pupils to address him as “her” and by his new female name; parents were given no warning and children were left bewildered.
The boy is preparing for a sex-change operation and hormone treatment after psychologists decided he had a gender identity disorder.
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Nobody could help but be shocked by the incredible squalor this university dormitory has been reduced to…
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A recent graduate is suing her alma mater after failing to find work after gaining her degree, alleging the university did not support her enough in finding work.
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The Japanese government’s attempts to revise history textbooks to suggest Okinawan civilians were not butchered or forced into committing suicide by the Imperial Army to keep them out of American hands has run up against near unanimous opposition from Okinawans, surveys reveal.
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Anime is influencing the fashion trends of Japanese schoolgirls, asserts business and media news site J-Cast, citing reports of a “seifuku (uniform) boom” by one of Japan’s biggest textile companies and recent fashion trends adopting elements such as kneesocks, long popular in anime.
Specific mention is made of two popular franchises, K-On! and Haruhi,with K-On! in particular already having fully authentic cosplay up for sale barely two months into its TV broadcast.
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Perhaps sensing that Kanokon was insufficiently educational, at least where the basics are concerned, a niche sex education manga, ないしょのつぼみ / Naisho no Tsubomi (“Secret Budding”), seeks to offer a fuller explanation of puberty to children, and appears to be enjoying some success, now being on its fifth volume.
The manga deals with topics of importance to adolescents, especially girls, such as menarche, the growth of breasts (and the acquisition of a brassiere), new hair growth, as well as more social matters; all of these are illustrated in appropriate detail.
Naturally, not only children have been taking an interest in this title… Parents concerned to see their daughters well informed also take an interest. You can see more of it below:
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A man who had been using top Evangelion animator Takeshi Honda’s name to gain work at two universities has resigned after being exposed as a fake. He even had the gall to claim the real Honda was merely an apprentice of his being allowed to use the name.
He was unmasked after Khara, an anime studio founded by legendary director Hideaki Anno, launched an investigation after hearing that a man had been misusing the name of a Khara animator to gain work.
He had been working at his ill-gotten post for eight years without suspicion.
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A regional board of education has implemented plans which compel some 10 elementary and middle schools to distribute Nintendo DS handheld consoles amongst their pupils, along with appropriate software.
Starting in January, the schools began distributing the devices and software to children.
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