


An 11-year-old boy has stunned Japan by throwing himself under a train in an effort to prevent the imminent closure of his school, pleading in his suicide note for the merger to be cancelled.
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The Comiket organisers have announced their response to terrorist threats against the event is to ban all works featuring the subject of the threat – Kuroko’s Basketball – and hold Comiket 83 as normal, if absent the hundreds of circles comprised of Kuroko fans, a decision they blame on the police and venue.
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A young Naruto fan has killed himself after becoming distraught at the death of his favourite character in a Naruto movie.
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A Tokyo court has accepted a doctor’s defence that his breast groping constituted “medical treatment” and handed down a rare verdict of innocence.
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An unknown maniac has been threatening to use chemical warfare on schools attended by Kuroko’s Basketball mangaka Tadatoshi Fujimaki if he does not stop parodying other manga in his work.
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A university decision to ban a crossdressing contest after complaints that it “incited discrimination against those with gender identity disorder” has itself been proving controversial.
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A man whose efforts to reach 1000 sexual conquests finally culminated in him plucking a girl off the street has has been causing a stir online – not least because of the envy all the photographic evidence of his conquests has aroused amongst jealous virgins online.
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A hikikomori who concluded the only way to end his shut-in status was to burn his home to the ground is currently battling arson charges, on the grounds that he was insane at the time.
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Which is creepier – the marketing tactics of ABK48 or their notorious fans – is once again the subject of much debate after the group has begun giving away pantsu with its latest calendar.
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Japanese children continue to kill themselves at ever earlier ages, the latest case being a 12-year-old girl who apparently opted to hurl herself to her death rather than face the prospect of not handing in her homework on time.
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Yet another hikikomori has stabbed to death his mother, in this case “for not being kind enough” after he resolved to stop being a hermit.
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A hikikomori who murdered the sister who had helped support his 30 years of reclusion has been given a 20 year prison sentence for murder, with the judge ruling that the 16-year sentence sought by the prosecution was too lenient and dismissing the defence’s arguments that it was all the fault of Asperger’s syndrome out of hand.
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