
Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara has announced on a visit to the USA that he is negotiating for Tokyo to buy the Senkaku Islands, currently the subject of Chinese claims.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 22, 2012 12:57 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Comics, Hollywood, Marketing, Marvel, Movies, Politics, USA, X-Men

A leaked image of a poster for Hollywood’s upcoming “Wolverine” X-Men film has been accused of desecrating the glorious national flag of Japan, with the sacred “hi-no-maru” being clawed most viciously by a dishonourable barbarian.
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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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- 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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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 11, 2012 11:53 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Fuji TV, Internet, Korea, Marketing, Mass Media, Politics, TV, USA, VIP Quality

2ch has taken the unusual step of fighting back against the wicked Korean fifth column it believes is behind most of the ills of Japanese society by producing some English language propaganda of its own, targeted at American anime fans.
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Doujin fans are quaking at the wrath of Disney, which has just shut down a free doujin game for daring to include a likeness of Mickey Mouse, demanding ¥6,000,000 in compensation for good measure.
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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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DC Comics and one of their more xenophobic comic shop minions have apparently been caught playing with fire – their latest flier supposedly urges true American patriots to dump their slant-eyed yellow “manga” in favour of the all-American option of muscle-bound superheroes, by trading in traitorous foreign comics for a flag-rubbing DC Comics title.
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CNN has been reporting controversial complaints about Hollywood’s unwavering propensity to plunder Asian anime and cinema and recast all the characters as whites, quoting complaints that this amounts to “stealing the jobs of Asian actors and insulting their origins.”
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Bandai has announced its withdrawal from the US anime publishing business, a move greeted by the usual litany of piracy accusations from angry Japanese otaku with a less than favourable view of their overseas brethren.
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A new skyscraper planned to grace the skyline of Seoul has been accused of resembling the spectacle of the World Trade Center under terrorist attack.
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