
Police have arrested the CEO and 39 male employees of a soapland chain which employed 635 girls and banked $125 million over the last 2 years, after they were deemed to have fell foul of an obscure zoning technicality.
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Police have dropped child prostitution charges against one of their number who was caught paying girls aged 13 and 16 for 3P sex, accepting his excuse that “they looked at least 20,” prompting much outrage online.
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The latest development in Osaka’s efforts to hound tattooed deviants from public service have resulted in a lawsuit alleging the purge violates the Japanese constitution.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 12, 2012 23:01 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Bizarre, Chikan, Courts, Crime, Hyogo, Law, Police, Tokyo, Voyeurism

Police have been forced to release a man who admitted taking upskirt photos of an airline stewardess on his flight after it transpired they could not work out which prefecture he was flying over when the crime took place.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 1, 2012 23:33 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Internet, Law, Marketing, Music, Otaku, Police, TV

Japan’s law banning unauthorised downloads or ripping of copyrighted material came into effect on the 1st of October, with a maximum prison sentence of 2 years awaiting the vast majority of Japan’s Internet users if they are unfortunate enough to be caught downloading music and videos.
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Police have announced charges of criminal copyright infringement against the admin and players of an unauthorised Aion: The Tower of Eternity server, marking Japan’s first ever prosecution of an emulated MMORPG server.
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Japan has announced plans to arrest Japanese who dared to set foot on the Senkaku Islands, despite just having let go Chinese protesters who illegally entered Japanese territory in order to storm the islands themselves.
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Now police as well as teachers have come under fire, this time for telling a boy who was beaten unconscious and suffered broken ribs and PTSD in as a result of bullying that “it’d be best to forget about” the attack, and for refusing to accept any crime had taken place.
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A hikikomori who murdered the sister who had helped support his 30 years of reclusion has been given a 20 year prison sentence for murder, with the judge ruling that the 16-year sentence sought by the prosecution was too lenient and dismissing the defence’s arguments that it was all the fault of Asperger’s syndrome out of hand.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Jul 20, 2012 02:09 JST
- Tags: AV, Crime, Exhibitionism, Goddesses, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Law, Oppai, Police, Prostitution

A woman has been arrested for the outrageous crime of taking photographs of herself naked for the edification of male admirers, prompting much outrage online.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 6, 2012 16:22 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Law, Litigation, Medical, Police, Yamagata

The parents of a critically ill boy who was told “get a taxi” when he called 119 for an ambulance and subsequently died without ever receiving medical attention are suing the city responsible.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 2, 2012 05:17 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Law, Marketing, Military, Nagoya, Osaka, USA, Weapons

Japanese customs have banned the import of US-made ballpoint pens after determining they constituted “weapons” and “could be used in self-defence.”
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