- 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 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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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 19, 2011 08:17 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, History, Korea, Law, Military, Politics, Prostitution, Seoul

South Korea’s president has threatened to surround the Japanese embassy with “comfort women” statues if Japan does not start coughing up more apologies and cash for the alleged wartime misconduct.
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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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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 29, 2011 20:50 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, Feminism, Law, LDP, Loli, Lolicon, Moe, Otaku, Politics

Japan’s ongoing efforts to ban its only healthy industry continue, with the latest proposed law demanding anime, manga and games be lumped in with child pornography as the subject of a new ban.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 1, 2011 02:33 JST
- Tags: Beach, Crime, Fashion, Kobe, Law, Police, Summer, Tattoos, Yakuza

Kobe’s efforts to make its beaches more family friendly by banning people with tattoos from being on them appears to have backfired spectacularly – far from increasing visitor numbers with a flood of reassured families as was planned, young people have all but disappeared from the beach and visitor numbers are at their lowest ever.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 31, 2011 11:48 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Law, Misandry, Nagoya, Old People, Police, Prostitution, Schoolgirls

An elderly man who was kind enough to report to police the wallet dropped by the prostitute he had just had sex with has been arrested after they discovered she lied to him about her age and was actually a schoolgirl.
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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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Japan’s top sex tycoon, said to employ 1800 girls in 62 brothels and operate a score of hotels and other companies, has been arrested after police caught him operating a brothel in a brothel-free zone.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 24, 2011 15:54 JST
- Tags: Beach, Crime, Fashion, Kobe, Law, Police, Summer, Tattoos, Yakuza

Recent efforts to ban anyone with a tattoo from visiting public beaches have seen criticism that the policy is violating the human rights of people whose only crime is against fashion.
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Governor Ishihara’s initiative to rid Tokyo of depraved 2D filth has finally come into effect on the first of July, making it a crime to distribute any anime, manga or game the government deems “unhealthy” without consigning it to the same channels hardcore porn is distributed by.
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