
Legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki’s world renowned efforts in animation have at last snatched him an Honorary Oscar at the 2014 Governor’s Awards in Hollywood – the award in fact being his 2nd, with his first having been obtained in 2003 thanks to his classic film “Spirited Away” which won the title of “Best Animated Feature Film”.
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A man has been arrested for shaking hands after a high schooler accepted his offer of a handshake on a train.
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In a highly unusual case of a defendant being found innocent in a Japanese court, a man charged with groping a girl has been cleared after a judge decided that he could not have dashed 6m and groped her all in the 1 second period he was out of view of a security camera – although the fact he was jailed for 6 months, as long as the sentence sought by prosecutors, rather renders the verdict moot.
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Japanese prefectural authorities charged with censoring manga have been caught saying that titles in which women take the lead are “very dangerous” as they may “promote homosexual development amongst the youth.”
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Three teachers who beat a student who dyed his hair for half an hour have been warned not to do it again.
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A teacher has been arrested on suspicion of touching the breasts of a schoolgirl for over 30 minutes.
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A teacher who thought he had what it takes to become one of Japan’s legion of perverted maniacs masquerading as educators was undone by a sharp-eyed schoolgirl in only ten minutes after she spotted his hidden camera, and soon found himself an ex-teacher.
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A teacher stands accused of indecent assault after he dropped his trousers in front of a schoolgirl and asked her to rub his nether regions.
He denies the charges, explaining that he was just asking her for a massage.
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A notary public (56) has been subject to disciplinary measures for photographing the nether regions of female clerks via a hidden camera.
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A teacher who repeatedly and vigorously administered physical punishment to the female members of a sports club he oversaw was also engaged in an illicit tryst with one of their mothers; he has since been suspended temporarily.
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A man (59) who started licking the face of a two-year-old girl, in the middle of a supermarket, for several minutes, continuing even as her mother (45) screamed for him to stop, has thankfully been arrested.
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