
Both Japanese and Korean Internet users are reported to be planning a “cyber-war” against each other on the anniversary of Japan’s loss of the Second World War.
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Eyebrows have been raised at the rather shameless filching of the dimensional portal gameplay Valve’s Portal is known for by a Korean multiplayer FPS, with the equally original title “GATE.”
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The recent inclusion of Korean drama star Bae Yong-joon (or “Yon-sama” to Japanese) as a zombie in an episode of Highschool of the Dead has provoked indignant Korean accusations of racism against the show.
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A gang of teenagers has been arrested for torturing a girl to death over 4 days for gossiping about them, subsequently hitting upon the idea of draining the body of its blood in an effort to avoid detection, supposedly inspired by a similar method used in the manga “Case Closed.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 24, 2010 18:44 JST
- Tags: Babies, Bizarre, Crime, DPJ, Fraud, Korea, Law, Politics, Thailand

A Korean man living in Japan has reportedly adopted 554 children in order to claim 86 million yen in annual child support payments.
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Hysteria over children being led astray by the temptations of MMORPGs has prompted Korea to enact legislation banning youths from late night MMORPG sessions.
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Police have finally arrested a man alleged to have raped an already pregnant schoolgirl 10 times, subsequently forcing her to service men for money with which to procure her own abortion. He then spent the money in preparation for his upcoming exams.
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A Korean couple who allowed their baby daughter to starve to death whilst they obsessively played an MMO have been arrested.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 5, 2010 20:34 JST
- Tags: Dakimakura, Fate Testarossa, Korea, Marriage, Nanoha, Onanism, Otaku, Ronery, TV

A Korean otaku has married his Fate Testarossa dakimakura, with Korean media dutifully covering both his dating activities with the anime-inspired pillow, and the ceremony where the couple became man and pillowcase.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 4, 2010 11:31 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Korea, Police, San Francisco, USA

Korean cyber-terrorists have announced their intent to launch a second wave of attacks aimed at forcing 2ch offline again, for reasons nobody is quite sure of, even as the FBI has begun investigating the previous incident as a criminal attack on a US enterprise.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 3, 2010 04:34 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Korea, Police, San Francisco, USA

The recent Denial of Service attack on 2ch (now fully operational again) is being investigating by the FBI as an act of cyber-terrorism, with the host reporting $2,500,000 in damage caused by disruptions which also impaired access to US government servers.
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Top Japanese board 2ch remains inaccessible, due to the hacking efforts of Koreans outraged at criticism of their Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-Na.
The host afflicted, a US company, reports it intends to have the US government pursue a cyber-terrorism investigation.
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