- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 19, 2013 02:38 JST
- Tags: Akihabara, Crime, Enjo Kousai, Law, Lolicon, Otaku, Police, Prostitution, Schoolgirls

100 police have raided the streets of Akihabara in a crackdown on “JK walks,” for the first time resulting in actual JKs being taken into custody.
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The latest effort by feminists to get loli manga banned sees it being condemned as “hate speech” injurious to the rights of women and children.
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A teacher is in hot water after Tweeting pictures of a young schoolgirl friend he handcuffed for reasons which have not been made clear.
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The desperate efforts of NMB48’s 14-year-old Natsuko Akashi to escape her creepy fans have been causing a stir online, with opinions divided as to whether it is the poor girl or her pathetically short-changed fans who are more deserving of sympathy…
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The latest suspect man to be menacing the flower of the nation’s youth has been spotted “listening to a Walkman” near a school.
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Anime fans have been voting for the greatest elementary schoolers to grace the airwaves, whether on mainstream hits or shows catering to more specialised tastes…
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Long esteemed as one of the foremost and most popular anime genres, and perhaps not coincidentally also long reviled as the one with the creepiest fans, magical girl anime are still providing a steady stream of both mega-hit anime and top classics, as this ranking well demonstrates…
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A survey revealing 50% of Japanese women quizzed believed that there are interests which disbar even a hot guy from romantic consideration – and that all of the most despised of these relate to anime, managing to displace even the likes of “lolicon,” “prostitution” and “gambling” from the top spots – has been inflaming opinion online as usual.
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Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation gets even more disturbingly sexualised young girls in its latest outing, seeing amongst other things a cameo by a certain moral crusader and the revelation of the show’s bouncy ED.
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Japanese police have reported the nation’s first child pornography arrest involving “computer generated” artwork.
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Opponents of censorship have been disappointed by the LDP’s failure to disavow its efforts to ban much anime, manga and games with vague and overly sweeping new restrictions on child pornography, as a final verdict on the new law has now been put off until autumn.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 16, 2013 20:07 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, DPJ, Ken Akamatsu, Law, LDP, Loli, Lolicon, Politics

Lobbyist and mangaka extraordinaire Ken Akamatsu reports that Japan’s proposed ban on 2D material deemed to feature minors in compromising or explicit situations (i.e. quite possibly most of it) is facing difficulties and may well fail to pass.
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