


China’s great smog cloud is now poisoning Japan, causing pollution levels in parts of Japan to far exceed government limits and causing major health concerns.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 20, 2013 09:31 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Feminism, Fukuoka, Idol, Internet, Marketing, Music, Otaku, Tourism

AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda has resigned as mayor of Kawaii after Fukuoka’s gender equality commission heard complaints that “cute girls promote sexual discrimination.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 21, 2012 18:04 JST
- Tags: Architecture, Bizarre, Buildings, Food, Fukuoka, Image Gallery, Shinto, Starbucks, Tourism


The “harmonious” design of a Starbucks outlet located at one of Japan’s top Shinto sites has outraged the architectural sensibilities of many Japanese, although pleasurable feelings of violation at the hands of corporate America are sadly complicated by the fact it was designed by Japanese architects…
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A schoolgirl attacked by a pervert intent on cutting apart her uniform with a pair of scissors managed to fend him off by attacking him with her own scissors.
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Japan’s controversial new law criminalising mod chips and DVD ripping has been applied for the first time, resulting in the arrest of a man for modding several Nintendo Wiis.
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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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Deleting someone’s details from a mobile phone now apparently constitutes a grievous act of domestic violence.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 29, 2011 16:54 JST
- Tags: Courts, Crime, Fukuoka, Lolicon, Old People, Rape, Schoolgirls, Teachers, USA

An English teacher who raped and molested scores of his pupils has appealed his conviction on the grounds that he only did it “for the sake of their education and character development.”
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Police have arrested a nanpa master who reports hitting on 1000 girls, of which 100 agreed to have sex with him.
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Hand grenade warnings given by Fukuoka police in response to a surge in grenade tossing yakuza attacks, urging anyone encountering a grenade not to kick or tread on it, have lately been perplexing many.
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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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An American teaching English in Japan has been arrested for sexually assaulting at least 40 schoolgirls, videotaping himself abusing them in over 600 tapes. He admits to raping one elementary school girl because she “pestered” him, and explains his indecent filming as “creating a record of their transition to adulthood for them.”
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