
Police have arrested two men for the crime of photographing a group of cheerleaders on a stage, although some have criticised them for an excess of diligence when all the men were found to have taken photographs of was their thighs.
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Rarely has the reception to a new anime been one of near universal incomprehension, but Tsuritama seems to have secured this unusual distinction all the same – although most seem mercifully inclined to give it until the third episode before dumping it like so much Fractale…
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An elementary school teacher has admitted to raping 12 girls, some as young as 11, even going so far as to rape one little girl the day before his own wedding.
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A man has been arrested for paying three 13-year-old schoolgirls to participate in an orgy with him, having paid the princely sum of ¥15000 for all three.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 16, 2011 13:08 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Kanagawa, Law, Lolicon, Police, Prostitution, Schoolgirls, Voyeurism

A fetish sex establishment which employed actual schoolgirls to undress in their “bedrooms” fitted with one-way mirrors whilst paying patrons looked on has been closed for making minors work in unhygienic conditions after police found they had nothing else to charge them with.
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A soldier arrested for sex crimes claims he did it to avoid being sent back to duties in Japan’s disaster areas.
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A man has been arrested for tricking over 1,000 underage schoolgirls into paying him for sex.
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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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The Tokyo gubernatorial race continues to go from bad to worse with one of the candidates publicly stating he will ban “violent” games if elected, saying they create murderers.
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Kanagawa governor Shigefumi Matsuzawa has announced his intent to run for the position of governor of Tokyo, with his current statements and past deeds indicating he would be an even worse disaster for the anime and game industry than the outgoing Ishihara.
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The exploration of Japan’s forgotten places continues below, with the intrepid urban explorer from the previous gallery returning to share more of his expeditions.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, Japan
- Date: Jan 8, 2011 07:35 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Abandoned Places, Bizarre, Buildings, Gifu, Image Gallery, Kanagawa, Niigata, Shizuoka


An anonymous urban explorer has been sharing photographs of the many abandoned places he has been investigating throughout Japan with 2ch – the photographs hauntingly depict some of the most quintessentially Japanese of places, such as faddish theme parks and love hotels, ravaged by abandon and neglect, and in many cases still housing strange oddities – in one case a stuffed mammoth…
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