
A 19-year-old man has been handed a three year prison sentence for having sex with his 15-year-old wife, with whom he had a daughter. The law recognised his marriage as legal, but his consummating it constituted child abuse…
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Google has been forced by public pressure to retake the entirety of its Street View photographs in Japan, with the camera lowered 40cm to prevent people’s homes being exposed to the world by a camera peeping over their fences.
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A Japanese food retailer has attracted a storm of criticism after it set prosecutors on one of its part-time employees for making rice balls (onigiri) out of leftover rice due to be thrown out, accusing her of theft.
The legal assault was apparently intended to punish her for having the gall to submit a formal complaint about the company’s alleged non-payment of overtime owed.
The pettiness of the company’s accusations soon incited massive criticism and a major PR disaster…
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China has set in motion plans to force all foreign companies operating in China to share their source code with Chinese companies.
The governments of the US, Japan and Europe are objecting ferociously to what in China is likely to amount to state mandated piracy of their software secrets.
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A Democratic Party of Japan politician, Yukio Hatoyama, has created a storm of xenophobia after he suggested in a live NicoNico Douga broadcast that permanently resident foreigners should have the right to vote in local elections.
Opponents (including, it seems, the entirety of 2ch and Nico) immediately pounced on this as evidence of high treason and an unhealthy sympathy for the non-Japanese wretches who are apparently the source of so many evils in Japan.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 18, 2009 15:18 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Fraud, Gamania, Law, Lucent Heart, MMORPG, Money, Taiwan

MMORPG Lucent Heart’s operator Gamania has announced its intent to pursue unprecedentedly harsh measures against those who wilfully abused a recent item replication bug on its servers.
As well as terminating their accounts and those of their entire clan, Gamania vows to pursue criminal charges of fraud against the dupers, with guilty offenders possibly facing ten year prison sentences.
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The Philippines has moved to ban all loli porn, or “hentai” in its wording; a Congressional statement then describes “hentai” as “the Japanese pornographic cartoon that depicts children in explicit sexual activity.”
Offenders face up to 12 years in prison for possession of such drawings.
The law is being promoted by both Catholics and feminists.
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YouTube has decided to cripple its Korean site rather than comply with a new law which would force it to publish the real names of all contributors and commenters on the site.
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A Saudi Arabian judge recently ruled for the second time that an arranged marriage between a 47-year-old man and an 8-year-old girl was legal and binding.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 28, 2009 03:38 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Crime, Events, Guro, Law, Murder, Politics, Slavery


Chinese authorities certainly know how to put on a spectacle, and as a result thousands flock to see the condemned moments before they are shot in the back of the head and dismembered for organs.
The authorities have a particularly uncompromising approach with respect to the condemned – crossing out their names with red ink certainly reinforces their point.
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A 14-year-old girl who took naked pictures of herself for her boyfriend’s entertainment and posted them on her MySpace profile faces charges of possessing and disseminating child pornography, with a maximum sentence of 17-years. If convicted, the young predator also faces a lifetime of discrimination as a registered sex offender, along with rapists and pederasts.
This is apparently only one of many such incidents, with authorities now keenly launching a nationwide crackdown on the depraved actions of child-paedophiles, lest a plague of self-exploiting children predate upon themselves.
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As part of a wide ranging reform of their criminal code, Romania has moved towards decriminalizing incest, defined as sexual relations between family members.
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