- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2008 03:41 JST
- Tags: Aichi, Cars, Comiket, Crime, Nagoya, Otaku, Theft, Tokyo, Tokyo Big Sight

A young man (18) who stole an old lady’s car at knifepoint has offered his pressing need to attend Comiket as his reason for the crime. He needed to travel some 250km to Tokyo to get there.
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A man who concealed a camera inside a magazine and then inserted it into the skirts of scores of female train passengers has finally been apprehended.
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An elementary school teacher who groped and fondled no less than seven of his female pupils, at one point enlisting the aid of a vacuum cleaner, may face punishment, though for the time being he still works at the school. “I was trying to communicate with them” he explains.
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In an unprecedented case, several Tanaka Works manufactured airsoft guns have been ruled real firearms, and so their possession and sale are subject to immediate ban. Tanaka Works themselves, now apparently an illegal arsenal, have been raided by police with a view to prosecuting.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: News, Tokyo
- Date: Oct 9, 2008 21:49 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Chikan, Crime, Hino-shi, Lolicon, Rape, School, Toilets, Tokyo

“I prefer middle schoolers, but there weren’t any so I went for a primary schooler”; such is the unusual admission given by a man who was found to have invaded a ladies toilet and climbed into a stall occupied by an 8-year-old girl, seeking to gratify himself at her expense.
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A naked man of non-Japanese extraction has assailed the very moat of the Imperial Residence, driving back terrified Japanese police with either his nudity, or a series of rocks and other items he picked up.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: News, Tokyo
- Date: Sep 27, 2008 14:02 JST
- Tags: Blackmail, Crime, Enjo Kousai, Ikebukuro, Lolicon, Schoolgirls, Shibuya, Tokyo, Yakuza

A girl and her hoodlum accomplice face blackmail charges after they lured a man into underage sex with the girl, and then threatened to expose him if he didn’t cough up ¥200,000.
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A herd of 73 painted cattle is gracing the streets of the Marunouchi area of Tokyo, as part of the popular bovine art celebration “CowParade”.
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Loli samba dancers cavorting in bikinis at the Asakusa Samba Carnival, a long running event styled on Brazilian culture. Most of the participating dancers are of course healthy young ladies, but in this case the emphasis must fall rather heavily on the “young” element of the description.
Some would say this is not in the best possible taste?

An elderly lady (79) was arrested after randomly stabbing two female passersby, at Shibuya station in the heart of Tokyo, we hear.
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A giant Hachune Miku recently menaced (or should that be perplexed?) a festival with her leek, though fortunately nobody was injured. Witnesses report that the giant Miku was ensconced over the Asagaya shopping arcade throughout the period of the matsuri, several days, but made no demands.
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A lady (34) who viciously attacked seven male passersbys at a station, injuring six of them, has been overpowered and arrested, we hear. Her rampage was only stopped when her last victim, a student, subdued her, and police took custody of her.
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