
The plight of Japan’s animators, long famed for being paid slave wages, has been making headlines again with the news that Studio Easter, the makers of Case Closed, are being sued for allegedly paying their animators as little as $3 an hour.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 16, 2012 07:20 JST
- Tags: Chiba, Disney, Events, Law, Marriage, Politics, Relationships, Tokyo, Yuri

Tokyo Disneyland has had a rare brush with controversy, after it decided it will allow gay marriage ceremonies, delighting Japan’s typically quiet gay rights advocates and mildly annoying the less tolerant masses.
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A teacher convicted of over a thousand counts of rape and sexual assault on his pupils has been sentenced to 4613 years in prison, only to have the sentence reduced by 4583 years on a technicality.
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Continuing his crusade against the evils of tattoos, Osaka mayor Tooru Hashimoto has vowed to “thoroughly deal with” 200 tattooed city employees.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 20, 2012 20:43 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Law, Lolicon, Murder, Police, Rape, Sweden

A convicted murderer who violently raped a 12-year-old girl whilst on parole has lost his appeal to have his original 4 year sentence quashed, and will now face a staggering 5 year sentence for raping her, despite his claims that she smeared his semen on her underwear whilst she was masturbating in a stairwell, and that he had nothing to do with it.
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The mayor of Osaka has once again been voicing his disgust at the fact that the city has employed people with tattoos, and has demanded the creation of a special taskforce to root them out and sack them.
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The mayor of Osaka has ordered a ban on tattoos amongst city employees, with any found to have them to be either fired or forced to remove them, after the outrageous discovery that a public employee had a tattoo and that the city was not even able to sack him for it.
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A youth who killed a housewife and her baby daughter and then proceeded to rape the woman’s corpse, in what he claimed was a ceremony intended to bring her back to life, has finally been sentenced to death after 12 years of trials and appeals.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 24, 2012 09:36 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Endings, Internet, Law, Police, Politics, Sites, USA

Such major file hosting services as Filesonic and Fileserve have begun shutting down or crippling their services out of fear that they may end up following Megaupload’s management in being extradited to the US to face charges of facilitating copyright infringement on a grand scale.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 20, 2012 08:38 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Hong Kong, Internet, Law, New Zealand, Police, Sites, USA

The US government has shut down top file hosting service Megaupload and had its founder arrested on suspicion of causing $500 million in lost revenue to content sellers.
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Japanese courts have ruled that a man with an artificial leg is still capable of raping a schoolgirl after all, after having previously quashed his conviction on the grounds that he had only one leg.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 19, 2011 08:17 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, History, Korea, Law, Military, Politics, Prostitution, Seoul

South Korea’s president has threatened to surround the Japanese embassy with “comfort women” statues if Japan does not start coughing up more apologies and cash for the alleged wartime misconduct.
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