- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 2, 2012 02:37 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cannibalism, Crime, Food, Guro, Money, Niigata, Police, Tokyo


A trio of loan sharks face murder charges after allegedly making a man who owed them 20 million yen into a curry.
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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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Japanese and international penis lovers alike have eschewed tsunami memorials in favour of the chance to ride about on some giant penis amidst cheering crowds, much to the delight of onlookers and writers of ambiguous headlines.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: May 8, 2011 03:19 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Delivery Health, Medical, Niigata, Nurses, Onanism, Prostitution, Video Gallery

An assisted onanism “nursing” service for the disabled, the unfortunately “White Hands,” has lately been the subject of some sceptical discussion.
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Police have arrested 2 hobbyists for the grievous crime of modifying a figure to look like another character, charging them with criminal copyright infringement.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, Japan
- Date: Jan 8, 2011 07:35 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Abandoned Places, Bizarre, Buildings, Gifu, Image Gallery, Kanagawa, Niigata, Shizuoka


An anonymous urban explorer has been sharing photographs of the many abandoned places he has been investigating throughout Japan with 2ch – the photographs hauntingly depict some of the most quintessentially Japanese of places, such as faddish theme parks and love hotels, ravaged by abandon and neglect, and in many cases still housing strange oddities – in one case a stuffed mammoth…
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A senior police officer has been arrested after it transpired he used a police database to locate a schoolgirl, persuading her to have sex with him in return for money. It appears he will keep his job.
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A man who found and reported a lost bankbook claimed 15% of the legitimate owner’s $200,000 bank balance as a finder’s reward, and courts agreed the owner must pay.
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An inebriated headmaster is set to be given a stern telling off after he went on a drunken rampage on a train, attacking a schoolboy and apparently trying to kick open the door to the driver’s compartment.
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A group of five middle school friends lured a girl to one of their homes, and there had their way with her. They were “curious” about the matter, they admit.
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The chief priest (41) of a Buddhist temple resolved in an act of Buddhist compassion to burn out a nest of wasps, and in doing so duly had his temple smitten and reduced to ashes, destroying the entire temple complex.
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Commuters suffered repeated disruptions from a sudden spate of snake induced power outages to trains in several areas; a station in Ibaraki suffered two cases over two days where snakes found their way onto the overhead power lines, causing shorts which lasted hours and inconvenienced thousands of passengers. Another station in Niigata suffered a very similar outage with a snake being found on the power lines. The snakes involved in the attacks were all medium size non-venomous types, it is said.
The stations concerned are investigating countermeasures, though apparently in Niigata the poles in question already had snakeproof sheets to prevent errant serpents from mounting them; the snake simply forced its way through the barrier. Via Asahi.
Unfortunately, none of the snakes involved in these tragic incidents survived their ill considered ventures.