
An elementary school teacher who raped 5 of his pupils aged from 8 to 12 a total of 37 times faces a possible 30 year prison sentence.
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Kyoto University’s decision to ban its long-standing tradition of graduation ceremony cosplay has been the subject of some concern amongst disappointed students and the wider Internet.
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China’s economy may have finally surpassed that of Japan, but Japan is clearly fighting back and showing that it too can still make things which explode unexpectedly, as in the case of this otaku room.
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A rather unique poster of the Keion-bu sidelining as spokesmodels for the Japanese National Census has recently sold on Yahoo Auctions for ¥71,000 (approx. $860 USD); while definitely not a record for impassioned otaku auctions, still surely a princely sum for a B2-sized poster with governmental text obscuring much of the artwork.
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Kyoto Animation explains that what underlies the success of K-ON! and its other top sellers is the company’s “passion,” and not the presence of moeblobs or popular novel and manga source material as some ignorant souls might think.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 14, 2010 04:29 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Apple, Bizarre, Crime, Kyoto, Law, Ninja, Police, Tourism, Weapons

Apple fuhrer Steve Jobs is reportedly enraged at having his ninja aspirations denied by Japanese customs, after they stymied his efforts to take shuriken out of the country on his private jet.
As retaliation he threatened he would “never come to a country like this again!”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 27, 2010 09:16 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Idol, IdolM@ster, Internet, Kyoto, Otaku, Seiyuu, Stalkers

Even by creepy otaku standards, the latest stalking of seiyuu Eriko Nakamura, best known for her role as IdolMaster’s Haruka, is extreme.
After she posted about a trip around the sights of Kyoto on her blog, she soon had her entire route plotted out in chronological order by the ubiquitous creepy otaku stalker legion all seiyuu are seemingly blessed with.
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The arrest of a “female chikan,” a near mythic object of fantasy for many male Japanese commuters, has resulted in more than a few dreams being shattered after it was revealed that the chikan was not only a woman, but had also apparently been groping scores of men, all without so much as a single complaint.
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Police arrested a woman for groping a man in rare example of female on male groping action.
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Three teachers who beat a student who dyed his hair for half an hour have been warned not to do it again.
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A schoolboy has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl.
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Nintendo’s campaign against piracy has scored another victory with a Nintendo DS pirate being handed a two and half year prison sentence and force to pay $100,000 in penalty, after he made a game available for free download.
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