
A woman who orchestrated the gang-rape and sexual servitude of a schoolboy at the hands of the other boys and girls she kept at her home has been jailed, it also emerging that she ran an unhealthy side business by renting them out to her bar patrons and selling lewd pictures of them online.
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The Japanese government is promising to finally stamp out illicit anime streaming sites overseas, and in China in particular, and replace them with an official streaming site with the cooperation of publishers and studios.
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Police have arrested a 15-year-old girl who beheaded a classmate and cut off her hand, apparently posting a series of grisly pictures on 2ch in between browsing other threads and trying to clean up all the blood.
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AKB48 national idol Yuria Kizaki’s appearance as a schoolgirl sex slave locked in a cage and clad only in her underwear on prime-time evening TV has been attracting much controversy, even amongst her fans it would seem.
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Police have arrested an artist for distributing 3D models of her vagina for use with 3D printers, insisting it constitutes obscenity despite her having repeatedly exhibited the same models in galleries and elsewhere.
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Mere weeks after one of them tried to saw off their hands, AKB48 are again hard at work shaking the hands of their creepy fans – who are now under such heavy guard that the entire process has been compared unfavourably to a prison visit or the more unstable kind of border crossing…
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Japanese police are pressing charges against a trio of teenagers for the odious crime of cheating in an online game, the nation’s first ever for this outrageous offence, after MapleStory publisher Nexon fingered them as thieving hackers.
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An American soldier has been arrested for the very Japanese crime of upskirt photography, apparently having spent a little too much time absorbing the local culture.
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A Touhou otaku has been arrested for threatening to pour kerosene on a young woman who’s voice work in a doujin video apparently did not meet the standards and style he expected of Reimu-portrayal.
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Japan has just criminalised the possession of child pornography, though this time around lawmakers declined to destroy the anime and manga industry by banning their works as well, instead settling only for material featuring real people.
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The latest establishment to fail in its attempt to stay on the right side of the law whilst satisfying the universal need of Japanese males for schoolgirl contact comes in the form of a “beauty salon” which rather optimistically attempted to get away with having underdressed schoolgirls give patrons oil massages…
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Top singer seiyuu Nana Mizuki has expressed her “profound sadness” at news that one of her fans got himself arrested after illegally dumping the 208kg of potato chips he bought to get the chance to meet her on stage – not least because one of her own fans has just undone all the days she spent charitably picking up garbage herself.
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