
One Piece’s pirate lord Monkey D. Luffy and snake princess Boa Hancock are cosplayed immaculately here by Korean cosplayer duo Tomia and Tasha.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 15, 2010 07:45 JST
- Tags: Australia, Crime, Food, Marketing, Mass Media, Piracy, Politics, Terrorism, Whaling

Australia’s crackpot left has once again thrown its lot in with eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd, demanding Japan release operative Peter Bethune, arrested for illegally boarding a whaling vessel on the high seas, supposedly in an effort to capture it.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 16, 2010 10:18 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Food, Marketing, Mass Media, Piracy, Politics, Terrorism, Whaling

Sea Shepherd’s latest brazen act of piracy involved the illegal boarding of a Japanese whaling vessel, with the captain being presented with an order to surrender to Sea Shepherd to face trial for attempted murder and to pay the group millions in restitution for supposedly sinking the Ady Gil.
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Sea Shepherd’s terrorist attacks on Japanese ships have for the first time drawn blood after the group fired rockets filled with acid onto the deck of a whaler, injuring three crewmen.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 10, 2010 00:46 JST
- Tags: Australia, Crime, Fish, Food, Marketing, Mass Media, Piracy, Terrorism, Whaling

Eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd has announced it intends to attack boats fishing for Northern Bluefin Tuna, a species for which most demand comes from Japan.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 9, 2010 02:42 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Food, Marketing, Mass Media, Piracy, Whaling

Eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd are bringing legal charges of piracy against the Japanese whaling vessel they recently attacked, after their crippled vessel was abandoned at sea, a loss of over a million dollars, in an incident the group is claiming was an intentional act of piracy by the Japanese.
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The latest development in eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd’s campaign of piracy against Japan’s “scientific” whaling vessels is their new flagship vessel “sinking” after a spectacular collision with a whaling vessel.
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A Chinese gaming rag, 掌机迷, one bearing a striking resemblance to Famitsu, has taken a distinctly Chinese approach to respecting copyright, by helpfully including the full ISO and similar data on its cover disc for the games it is reviewing.
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This is surprising considering how het up the police in Akiba are over street performances and the like now – pirate, uncensored and overseas edition DVDs being sold bold as brass from a normal retail location? Not for long, I’d wager. Interesting to see how long they last; usually these kind of shops have to be far more discrete and be ready to disappear rapidly. Akibablog reveals all. But 3000¥ for a pirate DVD? Exorbitant.