
Japan’s population of NEETs continues to burgeon despite the supposed success of Abenomics, with the proportion of young people now engaged in providing “home security” now at record levels.
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Adorable .moe domains look well on the way to becoming a reality, as ICANN has just approved their creation.
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The widely derided general election victory of AKB48 “super carnivore” Rino Sashihara looks to have enraged even other members of the group, as comments from a number of them savaging Sashihara and her unclean victory as an affront to the very serious business of feigning virginity in order to extract creepy otaku cash have been made public.
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Following from the confirmation that Japanese TV will start 4K UHDTV broadcasts in 2014, 8K broadcasts are now firmly on schedule for 2020.
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Otaku have elected HKT48′s “super carnivore” Rino Sashihara as their “national idol” in the 5th AKB48 “general election.”
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Despite polarising revelations about the ending of the novels, family love anime Ore no Imouto 2 continues with a brutal yandere montage, imouto-bridal wear, and fan disappointment over the cameo of Japanese pop idol duo ClariS…
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The release of the 12th and final volume of Ore no Imouto has cause a partial upset amongst fans, although some are now very happy indeed.
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Japanese are supposedly now more interested in the AKB general election than their own parliamentary general election, with 68% more concerned over which idol finds herself “elected” to than which bunch of incompetents will be running the country next.
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AKB48 “super-carnivore” Rino Sashihara has apparently managing to secure 9108 votes (worth some 14 million yen), thanks to a new cohort of creepy Chinese otaku as flush with funds as their Japanese counterparts.
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In a departure from merely festooning his room with anime goods, one of Bakemonogatari’s more enterpising fans has won much praise by actually going so far as to recreate Araragi’s excessively stylish banana sofa.
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The latest triumph of AKBnomics arrives in the form of an AKB otaku who proudly shows off the stack of 4,000 votes (at a cost of some 6.4 million yen) he is casting on young Anna Iriyama.
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Chinese search giant Baidu’s efforts to guilt-trip Japanese users of its IME software into not uninstalling it by having a cute nekomimi maid beg them for forgiveness has been attracting much attention of late – most of it scathingly negative.
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