
Chinese authorities have reportedly been cracking down on the evils of BL, arresting “20 young women” for being involved with the creation and distribution of yaoi fan fiction over the Internet.
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Square Enix has explained why they think Final Fantasy XIV proved such a disaster and how they rescued it with A Realm Reborn – including the fascinating revelation that the game’s flowerpots had as many polygons as its player characters…
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Japan is being blamed for a drop in global music sales after sales tanked 16.7%, with such a huge drop in sales in the world’s second largest music market causing the world music market to shrink 3.9%.
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Top manga publishers are vowing a legal crackdown on sites wicked enough to post spoilers about the plot of such gems as Naruto and One Piece, blaming them for their declining sales, and have already threatened one of one of the largest such sites into virtual closure.
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Tokyo-based former Magic: The Gathering card trading emporium and world’s largest BitCoin crypto-currency exchange Mt Gox has finally declared bankruptcy after losing 500 million dollars of BTC and pretending it was solvent for the better part of a year.
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A fresh and rather tasteful take on the time-honoured tradition of 2D dating has emerged from China, attracting much admiring attention both there and in Japan, along with the usual horror and scorn.
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Top seiyuu Takuma Terashima has been forced to delete his Twitter account after “dangerous” posts from his legion of stalkers prompted fears for his very life.
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Ika Musume’s bellicose antics have inexplicably manifested themselves in her victorious invasion of an illustration contest for a popular Finnish cheese…
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US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy’s efforts to improve US-Japanese relations by highlighting the evils of Japanese dolphin hunting already look to have made her the most unpopular ambassador in recent memory – and if her next threat “to discuss the comfort women issue” is carried out her place in history seems all but assured.
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Capcom has boldly proclaimed “all games will be basically social in future,” doubtless hoping to emulate the resounding success of Square Enix, Gree and DeNA in delivering high quality social gaming to the masses – whether they like it or not.
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Top Chinese portal Baidu has had its Japanese IME identified as a probable espionage tool after it transpired it is logging all Japanese text entered and sending it off to Baidu, causing such consternation that the government is warning against using it.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Dec 9, 2013 13:34 JST
- Tags: AV, Censorship, Crime, Internet, Law, Police, Prostitution, Teachers

A porn star elementary school music teacher has been arrested for appearing in uncensored adult videos, being outed after a complaint against her producers from another porn star angry at not being told she was appearing without the protection of a mosaic.
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