


Talented culinary expert Keesuke Inagaki of Kanagawa’s “La Ricetta Ristorante Pizzeria” has demonstrated a rather unique form of artistry, one which involves shaping anime characters out of fluffy pancakes – a tasteful form of art where even failure can at least ensure that the artist will not be a starving one.
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A man has been arrested for taking a photograph of a young woman on a train, with lawyers explaining this constitutes criminal voyeurism even if she is fully clothed, in frame head-to-foot, and no actual pictures are taken.
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The arrest of a man who printed several pistols has prompted the Japanese government to call for laws restricting 3D printers with uncharacteristic swiftness.
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BBC coverage of the Kanamara matsuri has again exposed the glorious penis-worshiping Shinto heritage of Japan for all to admire, despite touching a raw nerve amongst crazed nationalists desperate to hide such a “shameful” spectacle from the prying eyes of hairy barbarians.
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Kantai Collection’s flagship FamilyMart store has made quite a splash on launch – putting even most anime stores to shame with the intensity of its livery and the profusion of goods on display.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 29, 2013 00:58 JST
- Tags: Chikan, Crime, Kanagawa, Schoolgirls, Upskirt, US Military, USA, USFJ, Voyeurism

A US soldier has been captured by a 39-year-old Japanese woman after being caught taking upskirt photographs of a schoolgirl on a bus, and has been charged with chikan related offences more normally associated with salarymen despite his protestations that he was “aiming at her face.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 26, 2013 19:51 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Alcohol, Crime, Kanagawa, Military, Police, US Military, USA, USFJ

A US sailor has died under perplexing circumstances after trying to smash his way into the home of an elderly man from a 6th floor balcony, falling to his death when police arrived for some reason.
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Aku no Hana’s capacity for controversy continues to increase – police are reporting the arrest of two schoolgirls for destroying their classroom in a copycat crime they say was modelled on a scene from the manga.
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The hacker police accuse of tricking them into forcing 4 people to confess to making online death threats (or “Yuuchan” as 2ch has taken to calling him) has been charged with aircraft hijacking related offences, as police were forced to release him after having failed to make their initial charges stick.
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A Chinese man arrested deep inside one of America’s major naval bases in Japan claims he infiltrated the base as he “didn’t want to go back to China” and that he “wants to join the US army.”
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Japan’s total suicides in 2012 dropped below 30,000 for the first time in 15 years, according to official statistics – dropping by some 9%.
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Police have arrested the male proprietor of a massage parlour for providing intimate massages to women, in what is said to be the first arrest of its kind in Kanagawa prefecture.
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