
The harrowing news of a lone father who sacrificed himself to save his 9-year-old daughter after becoming lost in a blizzard has been harrowing Japan amidst one of the coldest winters in years.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 7, 2013 07:08 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Events, Hatsune Miku, Hokkaido, Marketing, Otaku, Sapporo, Tourism, Winter



Hatsune Miku’s winter incarnation has once again taken over New Chitose Airport, Japan’s third busiest, in some force, much to the delight of her fans.
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Even as she chokes herself to death under the biggest and most toxic shroud of smog in history, China has won some admirers for the ethereal quality of scenery she now offers those brave enough to chance their lungs to see.
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Winter has been taking its toll on animals unfortunate enough to find themselves in Chinese zoos, though not just because of the weather – reports have emerged of sluggish crocodiles being stoned to death “because they looked fake,” whilst elsewhere delighted visitors have been spotted enjoying the opportunity to pelt the lions with snowballs.
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Even more of the cosplay gracing Comiket 83′s final day has surfaced, and impressive indeed it is – and obviously rather chilly in the case of the more revealing examples, of which there are surprisingly many.
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Comiket 83 has proven the biggest winter Comiket ever, having seen 550,000 people in attendance – up 30,000 on the previous year – and of course this has ensured all manner of cosplay of the highest possible quality was on display.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, Galleries
- Date: Dec 30, 2012 10:44 JST
- Tags: Comiket, Cosplay, Enako, Events, Image Gallery, Lenfried, Oppai, Otaku, Winter

Comiket 83 has seen scores of the nation’s best cosplayers descend upon Tokyo Big Sight yet again – having narrowly escaped the forecast rain which instead chose day 2 to make its appearance, though not the low temperatures.
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Police are coming under fire for killing an anteater they captured by caging it outdoors in freezing temperatures, the intellectual strain of phoning the zoo which reported it missing apparently having proven too much for them.
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With the season drawing to a close, anime fans have rendered their most conclusive verdict yet as to which they will be following for the winter 2013 season – hopefully for the last time.
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Anime fans have selected their most anticipated upcoming anime of the 2013 winter season, quite possibly ready once again to have their hopes dashed hard.
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Not content with adorning their cars to at times absurd extremes, otaku have even turned to the rather more practical expedient of emblazoning their favourite characters on their skis and snowboards for some suitably “painful” down-slope action.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, International, News
- Date: Feb 15, 2012 00:34 JST
- Tags: Exhibitionism, Image Gallery, Marketing, Oppai, Politics, Russia, Sports, Ukraine, Winter


Topless protest group Femen’s latest political protest has seen them brave temperatures of -24°C in order to strip off and annoy the Russians, although observers could be forgiven for wondering more about how they manage to survive such extremes of exposure.
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