

Tireless otaku have yet again demonstrated their obsessive talent with comparison images of noted scenes from moe coffee shop anime Gochuumon Usagi and their real world equivalents – just how much effort was required to make this discovery has thankfully not been divulged.
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Japan’s newest female prison is to be painted pink to reduce any feelings of “oppression” its inmates might suffer during their unfortunate period of incarceration, prompting accusations of sexual discrimination against men.
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The latest marvel of Chinese engineering to be doing the rounds online are some of the ultra-slim buildings of Shanghai, earning such high praise as “looking just like a movie set” and “being even thinner than Japan’s.”
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The latest miracle of China quality construction to have amazed those in China and beyond is the advent of “fake” windows – in fact just black squares painted on the side of a building…
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A new Seoul municipal office in the likeness of a “big wave” poised to crash down on the old Japanese colonial era city offices has provoked plenty of controversy in Japan, being condemned as “the ultimate expression of Korean tastelessness” and “a deliberate insult to tsunami victims.”
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Tatami flooring boasting embedded LED lighting has been wowing many Japanese online with its overpowering cyber-wafuu styling.
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The latest less than reassuring scenes to emerge from China’s burgeoning rail network show sections of newly completed high-speed track already crumbling, and understandably once again have many worried about its safety – not least because it is apparently not regarded as a serious problem.
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The latest piece of China quality infrastructure to provide international audiences some much needed distraction from America quality governance is a Jiangxi ferry bridge filmed in the instant of its demise, with a flag-waving crosser seemingly too ironic a load for the bridge to bear.
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The lengths Chinese real estate developers will go to when mere property owners refuse to sell up are yet again causing a stir, with the latest example seeing tenants simply having their building torn down around them.
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China has closed an 88-million dollar museum and “patriotic education center” after the majority of its exhibits were found to be fakes, including such classic pieces as a Qing dynasty vase decorated with cartoon characters, despite the protests of curators who insist “at least half” the exhibits are genuine.
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Sacked Square Enix CEO Youichi Wada’s decision to relocate the company based on the advice of a feng shui (or “fuusui” as it is known in Japan) master is being blamed for the company’s precipitous declined.
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An upskirt voyeur has been caught lying in wait in a gutter for women to walk over him, after worming his way 20m through a 30cm wide crawlspace.
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