- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2012 02:32 JST
- Tags: History, Internet, Korea, Military, Osaka, Politics, Prostitution, Tokyo, WWII

Tokyo mayor Shintaro Ishihara’s latest foray into promoting international goodwill is to assert that Japan’s wartime “comfort women” were all willing Korean prostitutes only interested in the money.
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The Ambition of Nobuna Oda is continuing to live up to its reputation as being the best looking of the season with the latest episodes full of all manner of svelte sengoku damsels, with ever increasing amounts of bust on display and production quality at uncommonly high levels for such a title.
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South Korea’s president has caused a scandal by demanding “the Japanese king” grovel before the Korean people in apology should he wish to set foot on that peninsula’s sacred soil.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 12, 2012 19:06 JST
- Tags: Events, History, Internet, Olympics, Politics, Sports, Twitter, USA, WWII



The well deserved reputation of Americans for tolerance and humility has been highlighted by a series of widely circulated Tweets trumpeting the USA’s Olympic victory over Japan as “revenge for Pearl Harbor” (two nukes and 70 years of suzerainty apparently not being enough), in the otherwise obscure and unwatched sport of women’s football – where the USA received a drubbing at the hands of Japan’s team in 2011, which was responded to with the expected good grace.
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A serving Chinese general has been saying he thinks Japan ought to be made to “withdraw” from Okinawa, in favour of the peace-loving Chinese.
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Bishoujo jidai anime Oda Nobuna no Yabou (“The Ambition of Nobuna Oda” – not to be confused with historical warlord Nobunaga Oda) may prove the surprise hit of the season – largely thanks to its superb art and immaculate production values, and in spite of its distressingly generic male protagonist and overused timeslip plot trope…
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The bizarre taste in helmets of Japanese samurai, generals and warlords would put any modern cosplayer to shame, and sengoku jidai buffs have been busily collecting up some of the most egregiously eccentric examples.
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No less than the Embassy of Finland in Tokyo has interviewed the creator of Strike Witches about the inception of adorable Finnish witch Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen.
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Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara has announced on a visit to the USA that he is negotiating for Tokyo to buy the Senkaku Islands, currently the subject of Chinese claims.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 19, 2012 18:27 JST
- Tags: Canada, Comparison, Germany, History, Politics, Rankings, Statistics, UK, USA

Gallup polls show Americans to be more favourably inclined to Japan than ever, with no less than 83% reporting favourable opinions of the former “yellow peril,” with only Germany and America’s 3 colonies liked more – a result which has some Japanese scratching their heads.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 19, 2011 08:17 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, History, Korea, Law, Military, Politics, Prostitution, Seoul

South Korea’s president has threatened to surround the Japanese embassy with “comfort women” statues if Japan does not start coughing up more apologies and cash for the alleged wartime misconduct.
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Yamakan, in many respects the production staff equivalent to Aya Hirano, is in hot water for his controversial remarks again, this time having spewed some barely decipherable nonsense about the extermination of the Jews…
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