- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 20, 2013 09:31 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Feminism, Fukuoka, Idol, Internet, Marketing, Music, Otaku, Tourism

AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda has resigned as mayor of Kawaii after Fukuoka’s gender equality commission heard complaints that “cute girls promote sexual discrimination.”
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Not content with merely demoting freshly shorn AKB48 idol Minami Minegishi to “trainee” status for her disgraceful lack of chastity, her management have also stripped her of her online card game presence – outraging those of her fans who had obediently sunk all their money into it.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Feb 8, 2013 10:54 JST
- Tags: AKB48, AV, Dating, Idol, Marketing, Oppai, Otaku, Relationships, Virginity


AKB48 idol Yuki Kashiwagi has released the group’s latest scandal, after she was reported to have gone on a secret date with Minami Minegishi, a porn star and three athletes, and fans have not been taking the revelations well, a few going so far as to make the ultimate sacrifice – disposing of their creepy collections entirely.
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Remorseful and freshly shorn AKB48 idol Minami Minegishi has generated yet more controversy in Japan and beyond, with the international media castigating the Japanese for their shameful treatment of the girl and with Japanese castigating her for making the rest of the world think her antics are somehow considered normal or reasonable by the majority of Japanese.
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Even creepy AKB48 fans have recoiled at Minami Minegishi’s shocking act of atonement for being caught “spending the night” with a male friend: the distraught idol was made to shave her head and apologise to fans on YouTube – although her unflattering new hairstyle and public humiliation may be the least of her worries, as she was also punished by being demoted from active AKB48 membership.
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AKB48 idol Minami Takahashi has been causing controversy amongst idol fans by complaining about them refusing to let her pursue a normal love life, angering those of her creepy fans who apparently regard themselves as timeshare owners of her hymen.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 26, 2013 18:37 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Censorship, Crime, Idol, Law, Litigation, Marketing, Mass Media, Oppai

AKB48 is reportedly threatening to sue the mass media should it dare to call its Tomomi Kasai child breast fondling picture “child porn.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 18, 2013 14:37 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Crime, Gravure, Idol, Kodansha, Law, Music, Oppai, Police, Young Magazine

Police are investigating the possibility of arresting those involved with AKB48 idol Tomomi Kasai’s recent child breast fondling photo shoot scandal for child pornography offences, because the boy touching her breasts “looked European.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Jan 11, 2013 23:56 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Gravure, Idol, Image Gallery, Marketing, Music, Oppai, Young Magazine

A raunchy photo of AKB48 idol Tomomi Kasai posing “hand bra” with a child providing the hands has led to Young Magazine withdrawing its latest issue from sale for being “inappropriate,” prompting accusations of “child pornography” and “child abuse” against her, AKB48 and the magazine itself.
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The saccharine intensity of popular AKB48 idol Haruka Shimazaki’s newly exposed chest has been turning heads online – with plenty of praise and envy at the fact she apparently lives in a doll house.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 22, 2012 18:51 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Idol, J-pop, Marketing, Music, Oricon, Otaku, Rankings, Statistics

***48’s total dominance of 2012’s single charts has raised more than a few eyebrows amongst music lovers in Japan, with some voicing concern about the fact non-idol groups now barely feature at all…
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SKE48 may not have the obsessively devoted fandom of AKB48, but as fans have been noting recently, they do have something else in abundance – ample cleavage, more evident than ever in “Deguchi Aki Selection 8,” which shows off 8 of them (plus Deguchi Aki) in some quite revealing outfits.
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