- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 26, 2011 03:45 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Feminism, Loli, Lolicon, Mass Media, Misandry, Otaku, Politics, Tokyo

Tokyo’s Ishihara-led government is proposing yet more onerous censorship of manga and anime, this time on the grounds that they are sexist and violate the human rights of the groups (i.e. women and children) being depicted.
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China has been revolted by the callous and repeated hit-and-run crushing of a little girl and the subsequent unwillingness of passers-by to so much as acknowledge her bloodied body lying in the middle of the road, but according to surveys some 86% of Chinese claim they would help such an accident victim.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 1, 2011 05:16 JST
- Tags: China, Made in China, Mass Media, Music, Politics, Space, Technology, USA, Video Gallery

Chinese state TV has been humiliatingly exposed as having played unofficial US anthem “America the Beautiful” during an animation celebrating the non-exploding launch of its Tiangong-1 space lab module.
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A 24-year-old housewife’s desire to remove an ill-advised shoulder tattoo of her cat has resulted in a shockingly grotesque scene – so much so that many were left wondering just what the doctors were thinking.
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Japanese are wondering what has become of their politicians, after the latest resignation of a minister after only a week in office, for calling the evacuated reactor-despoiled towns of Fukushima “towns of death.”
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NHK has aired a shocking special on schoolgirl prostitution, or “enjo kousai” as the media persists in calling it, going into great detail on the topic – although many have questioned the extraordinarily sympathetic tone the programme adopts, as well as the fact it was aired on morning TV and included some perhaps unnecessarily detailed guidance as to how to decipher the online slang used in the trade…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Sep 4, 2011 18:08 JST
- Tags: FPS, Hollywood, Mass Media, PC Gaming, Politics, PS3, Square Enix, USA, Xbox 360

Time has accused Square Enix of racist portrayal of blacks in it recent transhuman stealth shooter Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
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A photograph alleged to be of scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano using her considerable oral talents on one of her many suitors has been leaked.
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A female seiyuu has been arrested for killing a 3-year-old girl she was in the process of adopting.
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The spectacular self-destruction of “rampant” seiyuu Aya Hirano’s career has made the pages of top Japanese gossip rag Friday, which alleges her agency killed her musical career in order to punish her for having sex with her band.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Jul 28, 2011 22:16 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Aya Hirano, Exhibitionism, Idol, Lantis, Mass Media, Music, Otaku, Seiyuu

Scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano is beset by ever more salacious accusations – now it is claimed (with some distinctly credible evidence) that she has been treating the men of her band as a private harem and that this is why she was dropped from her former label.
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A Japanese magazine has published a photograph purported to be of a naked Aya Hirano snogging her latest boyfriend in bed.
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