- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 26, 2012 13:37 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Gundam, Internet, LDP, Marketing, Mecha, Otaku, Politics, Robots

The LDP has announced it is considering a Gundam development program, with the presumed intent of defending Japan with an army of giant robots.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2011 17:22 JST
- Tags: Censorship, China, DVD Extras, LDP, Marketing, Oppai, Pantsu, Politics, TV


Even the Chinese have been complaining about the excessive levels of censorship Japanese anime and manga are now subject to, whether due to the attentions of Herr Ishihara or simply down to the prevalence of censorship marketing.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 29, 2011 20:50 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, Feminism, Law, LDP, Loli, Lolicon, Moe, Otaku, Politics

Japan’s ongoing efforts to ban its only healthy industry continue, with the latest proposed law demanding anime, manga and games be lumped in with child pornography as the subject of a new ban.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 6, 2011 05:22 JST
- Tags: 2ch, China, History, LDP, Marketing, Military, Otaku, Politics, Russia, Tokyo

Tokyo’s governor Shintaro Ishihara has taken a break from bashing manga to stress the need for Japan to become a military state and to develop its own nuclear arsenal, lest it be torn apart by wicked foreigners.
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Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party is set on passing a bill which would ban all loli material as child pornography, saying it promotes crimes against children.
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Governor Ishihara’s initiative to rid Tokyo of depraved 2D filth has finally come into effect on the first of July, making it a crime to distribute any anime, manga or game the government deems “unhealthy” without consigning it to the same channels hardcore porn is distributed by.
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Tokyo’s 78-year-old governor Shintaro Ishihara is thought to have been re-elected for a fourth term by a large margin.
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Tokyo’s crazy governor Shintaro Ishihara has announced he will stand for election for a fourth consecutive term, much to the delight of manga fans everywhere.
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Tokyo’s ruling rape novelist Shinataro Ishihara has apparently changed his mind about running for re-election, and is saying he may run for a fourth term after all.
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Tokyo’s 78-year-old governor Shintaro Ishihara has said he will not stand for election to a fourth term as Tokyo governor.
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A pro-ban politician has outraged manga fans by publicly exposing and then ridiculing a BL mangaka who put her name to an anti-ban petition sent to him.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 15, 2010 17:43 JST
- Tags: Censorship, DPJ, Ero-manga, Law, LDP, Lolicon, Oppai, Otaku, Pantsu, Politics, Seifuku

Tokyo’s manga ban has been signed into law after passing a final vote, and is set to come into effect in 2011, with Tokyo governor Ishihara crowing that “Japan still has some common sense left after all!”
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