
“Japanese cartoon” fans of RDG – Red Data Girl – have caused an upset in a UK paper after the volume of their twits on the #RDG hashtag easily obliterated the previous Reading-related activity.
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Remorseful and freshly shorn AKB48 idol Minami Minegishi has generated yet more controversy in Japan and beyond, with the international media castigating the Japanese for their shameful treatment of the girl and with Japanese castigating her for making the rest of the world think her antics are somehow considered normal or reasonable by the majority of Japanese.
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China’s military media has been attracting ridicule in China and beyond after it published an article attacking bishoujo tanker anime Girls und Panzer for being secret Japanese militarist propaganda.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 26, 2013 18:37 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Censorship, Crime, Idol, Law, Litigation, Marketing, Mass Media, Oppai

AKB48 is reportedly threatening to sue the mass media should it dare to call its Tomomi Kasai child breast fondling picture “child porn.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 18, 2012 06:50 JST
- Tags: DPJ, Gaikokujin, JRP, LDP, Mass Media, Military, Politics, USA, Video Gallery

The founder of what is now Japan’s third largest party, Tooru Hashimoto, has given an outraged response to the suggestion that any American could possibly call Japan right wing, saying a nation with such a huge army and nuclear weapons which brazenly violated the sovereignty of Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden has no business calling Japan right wing.
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Japan has again been gawping at the immaculate fashion sense of their youngest schoolgirls – this time in the fashion choices made by one stylish 12-year-old “JS” (“joshi shougakusei” – elementary school girl) even on her way to school…
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AKB48 member Yuka Masuda has been forced to quit the group in scandalous circumstances after the outrageous revelation that she “stayed the night” at a man’s house.
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Miku fans have been busily denouncing major US network CBS after it had the temerity to call holographic princess Hatsune Miku “the world’s fakest pop star.”
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The highly precocious nature of the fashion enjoyed by Japan’s female elementary schoolers (or “JS” – “joshi shougakusei,” as opposed to “JC” and “JK,” all of which is enjo kousai cant which has somehow found its way into mainstream usage) is once again causing concern amongst those who for some reason would rather they all be forced to dress up as cute little sailors…
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Police were recently forced to conduct an emergency arrest of a boy for the grievous crime of damaging a school cafeteria menu, after teachers concluded his behaviour was so outrageous they could not possibly be expected to handle him.
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The man who attempted to bag a 12-year-old girl and make off with her in a taxi has been denounced by the media as a creepy lolicon Precure otaku, with psychologists immediately blaming anime and manga and the media calling for yet more anime censorship.
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China’s latest ploy to ensure universal acceptance of its ancient and inalienable claim to the Senkaku isles has been to take out an ad in the New York Times asking Americans how they would react to Japan inexplicably claiming Hawaii – although some have pointed out comparisons of Japan claiming Hawaii to China claiming parts of Okinawa may be rather more appropriate than intended.
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