

The lovely tankers of Girls Und Panzer are out for the blood of their fans – quite literally as it happens.
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An “ultimate” (perhaps as in “final”) tie-up between the mouldering Lucky Star franchise and the shiny new Kantai Collection franchise has just put to sea, in the form of a Gamers Konata-Shimakaze crossover cover, with a Prisma Illya cover for Animate for good measure.
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Japan has refused to spy on Internet traffic for the NSA, offering the amazing excuse that it would be unconstitutional for them to do so.
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Kantai Collection fans have been celebrating the long-awaited “ultimate collaboration” of top mecha-musume artist and Strike Witches illustrator Shimada Fumikane, in the form of IJN light cruiser Nagara.
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WWII mecha-musume megahit Kantai Collection (“Battleship Collection,” or KanKore) is finally getting both an anime and handheld release.
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Tank MMO World of Tanks has finally seen reason and joined forces with tank manga Girls Und Panzer in the form of an official manga guide to the game, in a none too subtle scheme to win over both military otaku and the wider social gaming masses.
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Japan has just launched the Izumo, its newest helicopter carrier and the first of the ultra-modern Izumo-class, and also the largest Japanese warship since WWII – all much to the irritation of the Chinese navy, the proud owner of a refurbished hulk it rescued from a Ukrainian scrapyard under the pretext it would be used as a casino.
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Survival game moe anime Stella C3-bu‘s girls finally trade in their school uniforms for military ones to participate in an airsoft war game, belatedly quashing the churlish complaint that their uniforms were a disgrace to the hobby…
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With gun and tanker girls doing so well, Gainax’s latest anime Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C3-bu aims to capitalize on the moe militaria craze with schoolgirls and airsoft survival games, having been compared to no less than K-ON! in terms of both its cuteness and extracurricular club theme, although purists have complained about them wearing their school uniforms during their matches…
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Two air force personnel have been orally reprimanded after sustaining injuries using base equipment for anal inflation purposes.
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Japanese have been reacting strongly to reports that China has been secretly “begging” the USA to allow them to temporarily land PLA forces on the disputed Senkaku Islands.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 26, 2013 19:51 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Alcohol, Crime, Kanagawa, Military, Police, US Military, USA, USFJ

A US sailor has died under perplexing circumstances after trying to smash his way into the home of an elderly man from a 6th floor balcony, falling to his death when police arrived for some reason.
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