
Otaku are once again pondering statistics showing that of over 130,000 Japanese questioned, some 40% consider themselves “otaku,” with an even higher proportion – 62% – of teenagers saying the same.
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A teacher who hit one of his pupils 53 times in the face for eating sweets on a school trip, injuring his neck and requiring weeks of recovery, has had his pay reduced 10% for 6 months.
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A recent middle school class photo circulating on Twitter has been causing a stir in Japan – though whether their faux outrage is due to concerns about their precocious antics or sheer envy is another matter…
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A schoolboy on his way to the first day of China’s spring term was anally skewered by his own bicycle when its saddle came off.
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An 11-year-old boy has stunned Japan by throwing himself under a train in an effort to prevent the imminent closure of his school, pleading in his suicide note for the merger to be cancelled.
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A man and his girlfriend have been arrested for inviting several schoolboys they met on the street to watch them have sex in public, with the young woman saying “I gave them some sexual education” and going so far as to let them touch and feel her.
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A young Naruto fan has killed himself after becoming distraught at the death of his favourite character in a Naruto movie.
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A US serviceman is in hospital after a drunken rampage in which he broke into a Okinawa apartment and beat up a schoolboy, broke their TV and then fell out of their 3rd floor window, all in violation of a rape-induced curfew.
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Police were recently forced to conduct an emergency arrest of a boy for the grievous crime of damaging a school cafeteria menu, after teachers concluded his behaviour was so outrageous they could not possibly be expected to handle him.
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Yet another schoolboy has succumbed to Japan’s schools and killed himself, with the school’s principal provoking widespread disgust by shamelessly asking his parents “to call it an accident” only the day after his death.
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A teacher who enjoyed years of sex with her male pupils has been found guilty of granting sexual favours to 3 of them on at least 16 occasions.
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A schoolboy has hurled himself from the top of one of Tokyo’s tallest buildings, earning much attention for his “bravery” and unusual choice of location.
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