- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 13, 2012 00:52 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Ayana Taketatsu, Idol, Internet, Music, Otaku, Rankings, Seiyuu, Twitter

None other than scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano herself has been unseated from her position as most followed seiyuu, with even her fascinating antics not enough to spare her the humiliation of being overtaken by the actor behind one of her on-screen peons.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 11, 2012 11:53 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Fuji TV, Internet, Korea, Marketing, Mass Media, Politics, TV, USA, VIP Quality

2ch has taken the unusual step of fighting back against the wicked Korean fifth column it believes is behind most of the ills of Japanese society by producing some English language propaganda of its own, targeted at American anime fans.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 2, 2012 16:35 JST
- Tags: Crime, Hatsune Miku, Internet, Korea, Music, Otaku, Politics, Vocaloid, YouTube

Hatsune Miku fans everywhere are being rallied to the virtual diva’s defence – parties unknown have been waging an underhanded campaign against her on YouTube, by filing fraudulent copyright claims against her videos in an effort to get all her songs deleted.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 25, 2012 10:57 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Animals, Bizarre, Crime, Guro, Internet, Kawasaki, Neko, Police

A man charged with animal abuse for torturing kittens to death has been re-arrested and charged with fraud after outraged cat lovers submitted a petition to police demanding harsher punishment.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 24, 2012 09:36 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Endings, Internet, Law, Police, Politics, Sites, USA

Such major file hosting services as Filesonic and Fileserve have begun shutting down or crippling their services out of fear that they may end up following Megaupload’s management in being extradited to the US to face charges of facilitating copyright infringement on a grand scale.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 20, 2012 08:38 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Hong Kong, Internet, Law, New Zealand, Police, Sites, USA

The US government has shut down top file hosting service Megaupload and had its founder arrested on suspicion of causing $500 million in lost revenue to content sellers.
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Japanese prefectural authorities charged with censoring manga have been caught saying that titles in which women take the lead are “very dangerous” as they may “promote homosexual development amongst the youth.”
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Bandai has announced its withdrawal from the US anime publishing business, a move greeted by the usual litany of piracy accusations from angry Japanese otaku with a less than favourable view of their overseas brethren.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 24, 2011 10:36 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Feminism, Internet, Misandry, Pregnancy, Trains, Twitter, Voyeurism

Two Japanese women complaining of a group of men on a train failing to yield their seats to them have ignited a furore online after they denounced all Japanese men as “scum” and proceeded to post photographs of the men online in an effort to shame them.
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Bandai Visual joins the legion of companies to suffer embarrassing hacks, having been forced to take a number of its sites offline as a result.
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Google Chrome has drafted in none other than Hatsune Miku to tout its benefits to computer users in Japan and beyond, with the latest Chrome advertising campaign carrying a video featuring the world’s foremost virtual diva.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Dec 10, 2011 11:22 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comparison, Copyright, Crime, Food, Internet, Law, Mangaka, Plagiarism, Shueisha

Grand Jump serialised gourmet manga “Dashi Master” is the latest manga to fall victim to the temptations of Google Images, with the publishers suspending its publication after its author was accused of tracing a significant number of images.
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