
Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of Japan’s newly elected DPJ Prime Minister, claims she was abducted by aliens and taken to Venus, and was a friend of Tom Cruise in a previous life.
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The Democratic Party of Japan has not unexpectedly crushed the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in an unprecedented landslide, ending their almost uninterrupted 50 year reign with a spectacular victory which sees them on track to seize 300 seats in the 480 seat Diet.
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The Democratic Party of Japan, Japan’s leftist opposition party, seems intent on continuing its long history as an opposition party, having announced that it will “solve” Japan’s impending economic collapse under the weight of an unrealistically generous pension system by raising income taxes for all Japanese by a staggering 15%.
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Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has made a short anime attack ad as part of its election campaign, caricaturing the profligate policies of the opposition Democratic Part of Japan as fiscally unsound, and distributed online.
You can view it below:
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The recently proposed ban on loli has finally been rejected, after the current session of the Diet broke up without reaching any agreement on its scope.
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Even moral crusader idol Agnes Chan is resigned to defeat where the new loli ban is concerned, but she vows to strike back against the wicked lolicon in a rather strangely worded update to her diary, visible below:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 7, 2009 20:06 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, DPJ, LDP, Loli, Lolicon, Politics, Statistics, UNICEF

A survey asking whether Japanese thought a ban on “simple possession” of pornography featuring underage participants is necessary found only 1.6% of respondents thought so, with most condemning it as an excessively radical measure which endangers freedom of expression.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 7, 2009 00:57 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, DPJ, Law, LDP, Loli, Lolicon, Politics, UNICEF

Anti-pornography crusader and former bikini pin-up girl Agnes Chan has made one of her sternest proclamations to date, saying that freedom of expression is not needed by some, specifically those she does not like.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 29, 2009 20:40 JST
- Tags: BDSM, Censorship, DPJ, Eroge, Feminism, LDP, Mass Media, Politics, Rape

The recent reports of an “eroge ban” in Japan appear by all accounts to have been (almost) entirely fabricated by the mass media, presumably a consequence of wishful thinking.
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In responses to the recent media hysteria over “rape simulator” adult games, the main industry and ratings body in Japan has opted to completely ban the making and sale of titles featuring rape and sexual violence.
Estimates are that games affected could be “10-20%” of the market, meaning 20% of eroge could end up being banned, with themes such as BDSM and similar becoming completely off bounds.
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A Democratic Party of Japan politician, Yukio Hatoyama, has created a storm of xenophobia after he suggested in a live NicoNico Douga broadcast that permanently resident foreigners should have the right to vote in local elections.
Opponents (including, it seems, the entirety of 2ch and Nico) immediately pounced on this as evidence of high treason and an unhealthy sympathy for the non-Japanese wretches who are apparently the source of so many evils in Japan.
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