
The admirable schoolgirls of tank battle anime Girls Und Panzer have been emblazoned on a variety of posters to help advertise their lovely town of Oarai, (the town that the anime centers around, which is very much a real location even if its main claim to fame is now the anime) with the fictional girls practically becoming mascots for the tranquil fishing town.
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The JSDF’s Ibaraki command is the latest to embrace the power of moe as a recruiting aid, with mangaka and ero-doujinshika Pochi providing the art for their latest recruiting poster.
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Hordes of Girls und Panzer otaku, itasha and a real type 74 have descended upon Oarai, the Ibaraki town in which the anime is set, for the Kairaku Festa, with the practice of enticing studios to set their anime in real locations proving as shrewd as ever.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 27, 2012 19:10 JST
- Tags: 4chan, Copyright, Crime, Hacking, Ibaraki, Internet, Law, Moe, Politics

The campaign of Anonymous to free Japan from the bondage of unduly harsh copyright law has got off to a less than auspicious start after the group bumblingly hacked the wrong site, thinking it was humiliating the central government by defacing their site only to find it had instead ruined the site of a river works office in Ibaraki.
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In addition to its usual earthquakes, tsunami, eruptions, storms, floods and fallout, Japan has also suffered an unusually damaging tornado, devastating the city of Tsukuba.
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More and more video evidence of the immense devastation wrought by the great tsunami which inundated Japan’s northern pacific prefectures continues to surface, with the spectacle of entire cities being swept away being captured on film by terrified onlookers,
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As a result of the quake, eastern Japan’s major power company Tepco has announced it plans to introduce rolling blackouts throughout much of the region, the first since the end of WWII, for as much as 6 hours a day and possibly lasting until next year.
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Japanese police say deaths from the recent Sendai earthquake and tsunami, now upgraded to magnitude 9 and the 4th most intense in recorded history, will be measured “in the tens of thousands” amidst warnings of a likely magnitude 7 aftershock and an ongoing reactor crisis.
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A man has been arrested for somehow persuading a schoolgirl passing by his house to have sex with him for the princely sum of ¥1,000.
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A 17-year-old who attempted to rape and murder his classmate, smashing her face to a pulp with a 30kg concrete post after she resisted him, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison.
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The case of a Japanese man who committed suicide rather than be deported to a land he never knew and could not even speak the language of has underscored the tragic consequences of Japan’s dubious immigration and citizenship policy.
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A “snack bar” where hostesses are expected to erotically entertain and flirt with male patrons has been shut down after it emerged it employed schoolgirls as young as 12.
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