
One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda hospitalisation with a tonsil infection has caused the cancellation of at least two One Piece instalments, alarming many fans yet again.
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Noboru Yamaguchi, the 41-year-old author of the Zero no Tsukaima light novel series, has died after a long struggle with cancer.
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The tale of a girl who sustained horrific burns to almost all of her body trying to save her mother from their burning home has been attracting much sympathy in China of late.
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The disturbingly impressive results of South Korea’s notorious love of plastic surgery (most statistics have the nation as the most intensively enhanced on earth) have yet again surfaced, with the comparison imagery provided by various clinics proving especially controversial in Japan amongst those less than enamoured with the “Korean wave.”
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Even as she chokes herself to death under the biggest and most toxic shroud of smog in history, China has won some admirers for the ethereal quality of scenery she now offers those brave enough to chance their lungs to see.
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A Tokyo court has accepted a doctor’s defence that his breast groping constituted “medical treatment” and handed down a rare verdict of innocence.
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The hideous surgical procedures which pass as tattoo removal in Japan have once again been the subject of a grotesque expose, with a TV show helpfully detailing the practice in the hopes of terrifying anyone who might be thinking of getting inked out of their madness.
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Yet another bar has been caught “accidentally” managing to poison its apparently palateless patrons by serving them bleach instead of the expected booze.
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Chinese are aghast at reports that pharmaceutical companies have been making antibiotics out of cooking oil made from sewage, the cost of clean (and legal) oil having apparently proven an intolerable drain on their profits, whatever its possible effects on the health of their customers.
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China is again quaking in its seats after being shaken by yet another incident of a randomly exploding chair horribly maiming the poor unfortunate sat upon it.
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A Japanese bar has been ordered shut after they mistakenly served bleach to their customers instead of sake, hospitalising two customers who apparently did not notice they were downing a cleaning agent.
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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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