
In response to foreigners questioning their considerable backwardness, the Japanese have been pondering why it is so many of their women still aspire to and succeed in becoming housewives when the rest of the world is now enlightened enough to make both man and wife slave away at a workplace equally.
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Japan’s former PM and current LDP leader Shinzo Abe has stunned many Japanese with talk of building even more nuclear power plants, even as parts of the nation remain radioactive wastelands – though he very reassuringly talks of building them using the “latest technology” in “extremely safe” locations.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 2, 2012 02:37 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cannibalism, Crime, Food, Guro, Money, Niigata, Police, Tokyo


A trio of loan sharks face murder charges after allegedly making a man who owed them 20 million yen into a curry.
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6 mothers have been arrested for hawking lewd pictures of their daughters – one as young as 7 months – to creepy lolicon online, all of them claiming they just needed the money – although their unwillingness to work or even pursue similar avenues themselves seems to have ensured them very little sympathy indeed.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 8, 2012 20:33 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Idol, Marketing, Marriage, Mental Illness, Money, Music, Otaku, Relationships

Reports are surfacing of AKB48 fans who have somehow managed to get married, and of how tenuous this status appears to be in light of their creepy obsessions with shaking the hands of underage girls – including one case in which a wife threatened her husband with divorce after he bought 480 copies of the same AKB48 CD so he could attend a handshaking event.
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The tale of a long-suffering imouto who would rather see her anime otaku brother dead than continuing his NEET existence has moved many online – and given that NEETs, hikikomori and otaku are widely regarded as the lowest forms of life in Japan, many are moved only to condemn her brother’s parasitic existence.
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Most Japanese women would sooner marry a fat old creepy otaku than touch a pauper, if the results of a recent survey of their matrimonial priorities are anything to go by.
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The lovable little girl who used her sob story about needing cash to get to her sick grandfather’s sickbed to such great effect has been arrested after swindling some $500 out of the nearly 30 people she approached.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 17, 2012 13:01 JST
- Tags: Aki Toyosaki, Auctions, Comparison, Fashion, Idol, K-ON!, Money, Otaku, Seiyuu, Yui

Aki Toyosaki is once again offering loaded otaku the chance to pay to grab one of her cute bags, with the proceeds to go to charity – but thanks to her new-found scandal seiyuu status, cruel speculation rages amongst seiyuu otaku as to how much less than the $20,000 she received last time will be offered this time, and how badly she will be humiliated as a result.
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A small child has reportedly fallen victim to China-quality coinage, with the currency exploding in his hands for reasons unknown.
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Japanese census statistics reveal it is now “impossible” for any Japanese over 35 to get married, with as few as 2% managing to net a spouse in the 5 years from 35 to 40, and fewer still for those who are even older.
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Japanese statistics which suggest over a third of male youths and nearly two thirds of female youths have no interest in or an active dislike of sex have lately been exciting the concern of Japanese online.
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