- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 12, 2012 23:01 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Bizarre, Chikan, Courts, Crime, Hyogo, Law, Police, Tokyo, Voyeurism

Police have been forced to release a man who admitted taking upskirt photos of an airline stewardess on his flight after it transpired they could not work out which prefecture he was flying over when the crime took place.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 30, 2012 13:09 JST
- Tags: Chikan, Collections, Courts, Crime, Fetish, Mitaka, Pantsu, Police, Tokyo

It what may be a record for a cop, one officer faces jail for serial pantsu burglary, having filled his home with 600 articles of pilfered pantsu in the course of protecting the public over the last decade.
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A hikikomori who murdered the sister who had helped support his 30 years of reclusion has been given a 20 year prison sentence for murder, with the judge ruling that the 16-year sentence sought by the prosecution was too lenient and dismissing the defence’s arguments that it was all the fault of Asperger’s syndrome out of hand.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 6, 2012 16:22 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Law, Litigation, Medical, Police, Yamagata

The parents of a critically ill boy who was told “get a taxi” when he called 119 for an ambulance and subsequently died without ever receiving medical attention are suing the city responsible.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 28, 2012 04:10 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Bizarre, Courts, Idol, Litigation, Marketing, Mental Illness, Otaku, Virginity

One creepy AKB48 fan is so outraged at the news that idol Rino Sashihara was actually a “super-carnivore” busily having sex with one of her fans whilst telling the rest of them she was a pure little virgin schoolgirl that he is attempting to sue her for the monetary damages he suffered buying scores of her CDs.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jun 15, 2012 17:35 JST
- Tags: 2D vs 3D, Censorship, Courts, Crime, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Otaku, Police, Sweden

The Swedish Supreme Court has finally worked out that drawings are not people, and in a landmark case has acquitted a man convicted of possessing child pornography after the authorities found suggestive manga-themed imagery on his computer.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 16, 2012 21:53 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Food, Litigation, Nara, Osaka, Teachers, Theft

Even those familiar with the near legal invulnerability of Japanese teachers have been astonished by a court verdict which saw a teacher who stole ¥766 of food from a supermarket being awarded ¥18,000,000 after her employers had the temerity to attempt to punish her.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 11, 2012 02:41 JST
- Tags: Censorship, China, Courts, Litigation, Politics, PS3, Shanghai, Square Enix, Xbox 360

Square Enix is reportedly being sued in China for publishing a game which allows the player to kill Chinese, and which damages the image of that great nation by most unfairly depicting Shanghai as a squalid hotbed of criminality.
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In a highly unusual case of a defendant being found innocent in a Japanese court, a man charged with groping a girl has been cleared after a judge decided that he could not have dashed 6m and groped her all in the 1 second period he was out of view of a security camera – although the fact he was jailed for 6 months, as long as the sentence sought by prosecutors, rather renders the verdict moot.
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A teacher convicted of over a thousand counts of rape and sexual assault on his pupils has been sentenced to 4613 years in prison, only to have the sentence reduced by 4583 years on a technicality.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 20, 2012 20:43 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Law, Lolicon, Murder, Police, Rape, Sweden

A convicted murderer who violently raped a 12-year-old girl whilst on parole has lost his appeal to have his original 4 year sentence quashed, and will now face a staggering 5 year sentence for raping her, despite his claims that she smeared his semen on her underwear whilst she was masturbating in a stairwell, and that he had nothing to do with it.
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A youth who killed a housewife and her baby daughter and then proceeded to rape the woman’s corpse, in what he claimed was a ceremony intended to bring her back to life, has finally been sentenced to death after 12 years of trials and appeals.
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