- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 29, 2012 02:29 JST
- Tags: AV, China, Comparison, Idol, Otaku, Rankings, Sites, Sword Art Online, Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s otapedic tendencies have again been attracting attention, this time with a national comparison of the most viewed Wikipedia pages revealing the most viewed page on the Japanese edition in 2012 was a list of porn stars, followed by AKB48 and a long list of anime, as compared to the English version’s fascination with Facebook and the Chinese edition’s love of Japanese porn.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Oct 22, 2012 14:04 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Hacking, Oppai, Otaku, Paizuri, PSP, Senran Kagura, Sites


Barely had Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus been unveiled than its eager fans discovered the official site’s hidden secret – that they could remove the pesky swords obscuring their view of the heroine’s jiggling breasts.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 16, 2012 04:12 JST
- Tags: Atelier, Feminism, Gust, Lolicon, Marketing, Moe, Otaku, PS3, RPG, Sites, USA

Gamespot’s recent review of the English release of top moeblob RPG Atelier Meruru has proven controversial for spending an inordinate amount of time bashing the title for its “sexualised outfits on very young female protagonists,” whilst insinuating that anyone who plays it probably has an unhealthy interest in little girls.
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The White House reports that South Korean accesses downed their homepage after a petition demanding the US make schools stop using the “Sea of Japan” name in their textbooks inflamed the passions of nationalists.
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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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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 20, 2012 08:38 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Hong Kong, Internet, Law, New Zealand, Police, Sites, USA

The US government has shut down top file hosting service Megaupload and had its founder arrested on suspicion of causing $500 million in lost revenue to content sellers.
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Bandai Visual joins the legion of companies to suffer embarrassing hacks, having been forced to take a number of its sites offline as a result.
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Top sexy seiyuu Rie Tanaka has updated the layout of her site, providing a new glimpse of her saucy bikini and more…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Feb 9, 2011 00:26 JST
- Tags: Akita, Copyright, Crime, Google, Internet, Kodansha, Police, Schoolboys, Shueisha, Sites

A schoolboy has been arrested for copyright infringement for using the “free” file hosting service MegaUpload to distribute pirated manga to the public.
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Ken Akamatsu’s free manga distribution service “J-Comi” has launched (in beta form) to much fanfare with the complete Love Hina collection, but Akamatsu is publicly lamenting the fact that it seems all the users are too miserly to buy anything from his affiliate links, putting the project’s future in doubt before it is even out of beta.
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Ken Akamatsu, king of harem manga, is starting a free manga download site for out-of-print titles called “J-Comi,” and has announced all 14 volumes of Love Hina will be its first release.
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Both Japanese and Korean Internet users are reported to be planning a “cyber-war” against each other on the anniversary of Japan’s loss of the Second World War.
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