

Japanese have been shocked to learn that even their own ambassador to China is no longer safe, after his car was attacked in broad daylight and had its flag stolen.
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Police have arrested an elderly man for the heinous crime of picking 7 cherries from a tree, charging him with theft in a crime so shocking it was reported in Japan’s major newspapers and on TV.
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The severe theatre of Chinese justice has been impressing Chinese and international audiences alike, although perhaps for different reasons.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 16, 2012 21:53 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Food, Litigation, Nara, Osaka, Teachers, Theft

Even those familiar with the near legal invulnerability of Japanese teachers have been astonished by a court verdict which saw a teacher who stole ¥766 of food from a supermarket being awarded ¥18,000,000 after her employers had the temerity to attempt to punish her.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 14, 2012 15:20 JST
- Tags: Crime, Drama, Drugs, Gaikokujin, Rape, Talent, Theft, Tokyo, TV, USA, Yokohama

An American actor has been arrested for robbing and raping a Japanese woman, having broken into her house and drugged her with chloroform.
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Thieves who stole a 17.5m long stone bridge one night have finally been arrested, although they sold the bridge on before it could be recovered.
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Armed vigilante gangs patrolling for looters in Japan’s lawless disaster zones have been coming under scrutiny after reports surfaced of one group brutalising an unresisting looter they cornered, in a scene which would be more associated with post-apocalyptic fiction than Japan’s supposedly orderly response to the devastating quake.
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A Chinese neighbourhood was contaminated with human waste after an explosion caused by sewage-stealing thieves.
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A thief has made off with the precious PSP of seiyuu Haruna Ikezawa, making her cry.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 4, 2011 17:51 JST
- Tags: Crime, Guitars, K-ON!, Moe, NEETs, Otaku, Police, Shiga, Theft

Dirty otaku NEETs have been arrested for stealing the Keionbu’s guitars and various K-ON! figures, saying they did it because they wanted the figures.
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Police have recovered the stolen K-ON! guitars after they were dumped in a ditch like so much worthless moeblob trash, the thieves only having shown any interest in the contents of the stolen safe.
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Thieves have robbed Azunyan and company of their very instruments, to say nothing of thousands of dollars in cash and goods, striking the school otaku have chosen to venerate for being the spiritual home of K-ON!
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