
Apple has banned all 2ch-related Apps from its app store for offering too-ready access to porn and hurtful remarks.
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Sony has officially confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will be able to play second-hand games after all, after a patent on a method of blocking them and the much enhanced online delivery system of the new console led to much speculation that it would finally axe the used game market with a registration system.
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Sony have finally announced the PlayStation 4, revealing plenty of powerful hardware and advanced new features, and some rather impressive graphical capabilities.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 20, 2013 09:31 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Feminism, Fukuoka, Idol, Internet, Marketing, Music, Otaku, Tourism

AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda has resigned as mayor of Kawaii after Fukuoka’s gender equality commission heard complaints that “cute girls promote sexual discrimination.”
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“LVL 27” idol Shoko-tan has once again been publicly begging for someone to knock her up, taking the chance to show both her nice art and nice legs in the hopes of selling some ramen.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 10, 2013 17:24 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Neko, Otaku, Police, Technology, Viruses



Police say they have arrested the evil hacker who tricked them into forcing 4 innocents to confess to planning massacres, after he was caught on camera delivering a taunting digital message to police by cat – and Japan’s media has wasted no time in painting him as the archetypal creepy otaku.
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Not content with merely demoting freshly shorn AKB48 idol Minami Minegishi to “trainee” status for her disgraceful lack of chastity, her management have also stripped her of her online card game presence – outraging those of her fans who had obediently sunk all their money into it.
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The official Kill Me Baby site has published 686 Twitter avatars for fans of the anime – one for every person who bought a copy of the first volume of the anime, marking perhaps the first time an anime has been masochistic enough to make light of its own dismal sales figures.
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Barely had the conclusion to Sword Art Online aired than fans were baying for the second season – though perhaps more thanks to the overall quality of the series than the quality of the finale, which seems to have been treated more as a prelude to the adaptation of the rest of the novels…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 20, 2012 21:38 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Crime, Drugs, Internet, Law, Otaku, Police, Politics, Technology

Japanese cops have announced they have filed charges of promoting drug dealing against Hiroyuki, the infamous founder of Japan’s megaboard 2ch.net.
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Colin Powell has warned the youth of Japan they need more “muscle” and to stop reading manga lest they all turn into a nation of sissy little “herbivores” unable to pay off their national debt.
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