
Continuing his crusade against the evils of tattoos, Osaka mayor Tooru Hashimoto has vowed to “thoroughly deal with” 200 tattooed city employees.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 17, 2012 13:01 JST
- Tags: Aki Toyosaki, Auctions, Comparison, Fashion, Idol, K-ON!, Money, Otaku, Seiyuu, Yui

Aki Toyosaki is once again offering loaded otaku the chance to pay to grab one of her cute bags, with the proceeds to go to charity – but thanks to her new-found scandal seiyuu status, cruel speculation rages amongst seiyuu otaku as to how much less than the $20,000 she received last time will be offered this time, and how badly she will be humiliated as a result.
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The precocious nature of Japanese schoolgirls and the gyaru fashions they so keenly embrace are once again causing much wonder online – in this case, the pictured “JC” (middle school) girls, whose sense of fashion is anything but childish.
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Even the Chinese are perturbed by how blatantly their fashion designers have been copying sexy lingerie designs from the likes of Victoria’s Secret, and then proudly having their knock-offs strut down the catwalk – although sadly nobody is particularly surprised by the development.
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The mayor of Osaka has once again been voicing his disgust at the fact that the city has employed people with tattoos, and has demanded the creation of a special taskforce to root them out and sack them.
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The mayor of Osaka has ordered a ban on tattoos amongst city employees, with any found to have them to be either fired or forced to remove them, after the outrageous discovery that a public employee had a tattoo and that the city was not even able to sack him for it.
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The superiority of flat chests to large breasts is once again the topic of much debate, with small-breasted women and their many male admirers engaged in some quite strident advocacy of the merits of under-endowment.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, H, Japan
- Date: Feb 25, 2012 06:37 JST
- Tags: Exhibitionism, Fashion, Goddesses, Image Gallery, Keitai, Oppai, Oshiri, Shopping

Japan’s mobile auction sites are enjoying a surge in popularity – thanks largely to the fact that the girls using the services are now competing on sexiness in their product pictures as well as on price.
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Whether the full-blown “Yamato Nadeshiko” Japanese maiden of legend, the katana waving female samurai, or merely the token black-haired girl in a kimono, Japanese style girls are an anime staple, and their many fans have seen fit to rank them accordingly.
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An analysis of the 9 none-too-subtle signs by which women may identify any man as an otaku and therefore spare themselves the shame of interacting with him has predictably been proving incendiary online.
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The advent of Valentine’s Day has prompted this poll of Japanese women, asking them what they think the cutest habits of men on dates are, which may come as a small relief to those men embarrassed by the realisation that their companion noticed them in the first place…
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Japanese women are traditionally thought to have a strong preference for (relatively) tall men, but if the below ranking of the advantages of men of low stature is anything to go by, even small men may still be in with a chance…
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