

Two idols, the fans they dated and even their parents are all being sued by the group’s management for over 8 million yen in damages for “contract violation” and “betraying their fans,” soon prompting accusations of “slavery” and “human rights violations” against the agency in turn.
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An enraged AKB48 fan is attempting to sue the maniac behind the saw rampage which has led to the next handshaking event being cancelled, demanding the cost of the 330 CDs he bought along with payment for the emotional distress of the cancellation.
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Police have confirmed that A-1 Pictures worked one of their animators to death, ruling that being made to work hundreds of hours of overtime a month drove him to suicide.
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Eco-terror group Sea Shepherd have been branded “pirates” by a US court, after the annual season of whaler hunting theatrics saw them claiming the whalers they rammed were attacking them.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 26, 2013 18:37 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Censorship, Crime, Idol, Law, Litigation, Marketing, Mass Media, Oppai

AKB48 is reportedly threatening to sue the mass media should it dare to call its Tomomi Kasai child breast fondling picture “child porn.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2012 12:19 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Crime, Earthquakes, Fukushima, Litigation, Military, Politics, US Military, USA


US sailors who helped the quake-stricken Japanese as part of “Operation Tomodachi” are now suing them for exposing them to radiation.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 11, 2012 21:07 JST
- Tags: Crime, Litigation, Murder, Police, Politics, Schoolboys, Shiga, Suicide, Teachers

Police have raided the school and city hall at the heart of the recent Shiga schoolboy suicide scandal, even as ever more disturbing details of the abuse he suffered and the lengths the school went to cover it all up continue to emerge.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 8, 2012 18:58 JST
- Tags: Crime, Litigation, Murder, Police, Politics, Schoolboys, Shiga, Suicide, Teachers

The case of a schoolboy driven to jump off a building after relentless bullying at the hands of his classmates – apparently with the active participation of his teachers – has outraged Japan, as much as have the insistent attempts of his teachers and even local police to deny the bullying had anything to do with his death.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 6, 2012 16:22 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Law, Litigation, Medical, Police, Yamagata

The parents of a critically ill boy who was told “get a taxi” when he called 119 for an ambulance and subsequently died without ever receiving medical attention are suing the city responsible.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 28, 2012 04:10 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Bizarre, Courts, Idol, Litigation, Marketing, Mental Illness, Otaku, Virginity

One creepy AKB48 fan is so outraged at the news that idol Rino Sashihara was actually a “super-carnivore” busily having sex with one of her fans whilst telling the rest of them she was a pure little virgin schoolgirl that he is attempting to sue her for the monetary damages he suffered buying scores of her CDs.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jun 2, 2012 12:36 JST
- Tags: Adultery, Crime, Drugs, Litigation, New York, Schoolboys, Shotacon, Teaches, USA

A married teacher who spent private lessons with her schoolboy pupil teaching him the more intimate details of oral sex and intercourse rather than the English language faces a $10 million claim from the boy’s parents.
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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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