
“Japanese cartoon” fans of RDG – Red Data Girl – have caused an upset in a UK paper after the volume of their twits on the #RDG hashtag easily obliterated the previous Reading-related activity.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 8, 2013 12:26 JST
- Tags: AV, Censorship, Feminism, France, Germany, Italy, Politics, Sweden, UK

The European Union is now considering banning all pornography as it is an “infringement of the human rights” of women and “promotes gender stereotypes.”
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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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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 4, 2012 04:31 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Copyright, Events, Food, London, Marketing, Mass Media, Sushi, UK

Japanese are aghast to learn that the 2012 Olympics has banned sushi sellers from providing soy sauce as there are no makers sponsoring the event, making the dish practically inedible to Japanese and further drawing attention to the increasingly farcical nature of the event.
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British musician Noel Gallagher, of “Oasis” fame, has caused a storm of controversy online after his less than flattering comments about AKB48 were circulated on 2ch, enraging their notoriously dedicated fans into attack mode.
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The reputation of creepy Pokémon otaku just became a little creepier with the news that one of their number has been stripped of his championship title for spreading his own excrement about his hotel.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 19, 2012 18:27 JST
- Tags: Canada, Comparison, Germany, History, Politics, Rankings, Statistics, UK, USA

Gallup polls show Americans to be more favourably inclined to Japan than ever, with no less than 83% reporting favourable opinions of the former “yellow peril,” with only Germany and America’s 3 colonies liked more – a result which has some Japanese scratching their heads.
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London’s newly won position on the K-ON! “seichi” pilgrimage circuit appears to be well in hand – fans of the K-ON! movie are already hunting through its frigid and grimy recesses to find the various locations fictionally graced by their moeblob icons.
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A British newspaper article blaming 2D for turning Japanese men into effete pillow-frotteurs has lately been provoking controversy online.
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2ch’s latest efforts to make the unmoe moe has seen them manage to moefy the entire national borders of the UK, on the basis that she “looks like a girl worried about the size of her breasts.”
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The South Korean government is threatening to start using the Argentine name for the seas surrounding the Falkland Islands after the UK government refused to go along with its demands for it to rename the “Sea of Japan” the “East Sea” on its own maps, much to the glee of the Japanese and the incomprehension or indifference of practically everyone else.
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Appreciative moeblob fans have been heaping praise on the newly released K-ON! movie trailer – as might be expected, fans consider it to have the unmistakable air of a major hit about it.
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