



Japanese TV’s loving coverage of these charming 11-year-old fashionistas has been doing the rounds, with their precocious looks astonishing, and delighting, many – not least the TV station.
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“Super-carnivore” AKB48 idol Rino Sashihara has partially admitted allegations that she pursued one of her own creepy otaku fans for sex, and has been dumped from the group and banished to the wastes of Kyushu.
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AKB48 member Rino Sashihara has been outed as a “super-carnivore” who pursued one of her creepy otaku fans for sex when she was only 15.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 30, 2012 06:35 JST
- Tags: Events, Marketing, Mass Media, Old People, Olympics, Politics, Sports, Statistics, Tokyo

Tokyo’s dear leader Shintaro Ishihara has accused his subjects of “having become a different race to the rest of the Japanese” after they angered him by refusing to display sufficient enthusiasm for his 2020 Olympic bid.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 23, 2012 11:54 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Comparison, Events, Korea, Mass Media, Okinawa, Politics, Space, Video Gallery

A South Korean English language report on the launch of a “domestically produced” Korean satellite on a Japanese rocket which used footage of the rocket from which “Nippon” and the Japanese flag had been conspicuously removed have outraged many Japanese.
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Osaka’s mayor has once again been criticising the moral depravity of tattoos, this time warning Lady Gaga that she can forget about working as one of his binmen.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 18, 2012 04:03 JST
- Tags: 2ch, AT-X, Copyright, Hacking, Mass Media, Otaku, Technology, Toshiba, TV

Japan’s “B-CAS” smart card system has been completely cracked, allowing free viewing of almost all the country’s premium satellite and cable channels.
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Fox News reports that the Japanese will soon go extinct if they do not start making more babies soon, warning that this might be of consequence even to Americans and blaming the usual suspects of herbivorous men, otaku virgins and weird Japanese who prefer making friends “with robots.”
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According to a global survey conducted by the BBC, Japan is now regarded as the nation with the most positive influence on the world, and China is now regarded as a more positive (and less negative) influence even than the US.
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An old man who lives naked and alone on a tropical Okinawa island, subsisting only off the natural bounty of his monthly care package, has lately been picked up by the international media – although Japanese have been rather less sympathetic, with some denouncing him as a mere hikikomori or homeless, or worse yet, a dirty NEET…
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Controversy abounds over an university professor’s theory that men without girlfriends are actually suffering an illness caused by the pernicious influence of games and the Internet.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 11, 2012 11:53 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Fuji TV, Internet, Korea, Marketing, Mass Media, Politics, TV, USA, VIP Quality

2ch has taken the unusual step of fighting back against the wicked Korean fifth column it believes is behind most of the ills of Japanese society by producing some English language propaganda of its own, targeted at American anime fans.
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