- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 11, 2012 11:53 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Fuji TV, Internet, Korea, Marketing, Mass Media, Politics, TV, USA, VIP Quality

2ch has taken the unusual step of fighting back against the wicked Korean fifth column it believes is behind most of the ills of Japanese society by producing some English language propaganda of its own, targeted at American anime fans.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 2, 2012 16:35 JST
- Tags: Crime, Hatsune Miku, Internet, Korea, Music, Otaku, Politics, Vocaloid, YouTube

Hatsune Miku fans everywhere are being rallied to the virtual diva’s defence – parties unknown have been waging an underhanded campaign against her on YouTube, by filing fraudulent copyright claims against her videos in an effort to get all her songs deleted.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 24, 2012 09:36 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Endings, Internet, Law, Police, Politics, Sites, USA

Such major file hosting services as Filesonic and Fileserve have begun shutting down or crippling their services out of fear that they may end up following Megaupload’s management in being extradited to the US to face charges of facilitating copyright infringement on a grand scale.
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DC Comics and one of their more xenophobic comic shop minions have apparently been caught playing with fire – their latest flier supposedly urges true American patriots to dump their slant-eyed yellow “manga” in favour of the all-American option of muscle-bound superheroes, by trading in traitorous foreign comics for a flag-rubbing DC Comics title.
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Japanese prefectural authorities charged with censoring manga have been caught saying that titles in which women take the lead are “very dangerous” as they may “promote homosexual development amongst the youth.”
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2ch has finally gotten wind of the release of 4chan-originated cripple-fancying game Katawa Shoujo, and even they are not sparing in expressing their outrage and disgust at its “discrimination against the disabled” – most having apparently forgotten their own notorious hatred of Koreans so as not to spoil the chance to engage in some righteous outrage against the insensitive barbarians…
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Fuji TV has been subjected to yet another wave of rabid right-wing criticism after it dared to air a show containing a parody of Bhutan’s royal family.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2011 17:22 JST
- Tags: Censorship, China, DVD Extras, LDP, Marketing, Oppai, Pantsu, Politics, TV


Even the Chinese have been complaining about the excessive levels of censorship Japanese anime and manga are now subject to, whether due to the attentions of Herr Ishihara or simply down to the prevalence of censorship marketing.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, International, News
- Date: Dec 21, 2011 10:55 JST
- Tags: Belarus, Crime, Exhibitionism, Feminism, Oppai, Police, Politics, Ukraine

Nude protest group Femen reports that three of its members were stripped, oiled and left naked in a forest after Belarus police objected to their latest protest and decided to kidnap them in retaliation.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 19, 2011 08:17 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, History, Korea, Law, Military, Politics, Prostitution, Seoul

South Korea’s president has threatened to surround the Japanese embassy with “comfort women” statues if Japan does not start coughing up more apologies and cash for the alleged wartime misconduct.
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Japan has discovered it has the unwelcome distinction of being the only G7 country in which the top cause of death for its young people is them killing themselves, with government statistics revealing suicide now accounts for over 50% of the deaths of men in their twenties and thirties.
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A mainstream Taiwanese political candidate who has cunningly chosen to drop the usual airbrushed portrait of herself beaming unconvincingly at the electorate in favour of a more up-to-date 2D moe image of herself has been attracting attention both within and without Taiwan.
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