
A significant number of Japanese women report they will dump a man if his bonus fails to live up to their expectations.
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Japanese women asked what traits they would be willing to put up with in a man they were going out with if he was sufficiently handsome give a set of responses which might actually hold hope for otherwise despised otaku men – as long as they are not poor, of course.
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Japanese asked what remarks they think most likely to instigate an immediate quarrel between husband and wife provide some classic and most probably universal lines.
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80% of Japanese women agree that is only proper that the man confess his undying love to them and not them to he, whilst a near majority expected an accompanying token of his affection in the form of flowers or something shiny and precious.
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Japanese women asked to rank the things they’d really rather not have to reveal to their boyfriend yield up a list of just the sort of things likely to give men nightmares.
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The plight of Japan’s pathetically paid animators is once again receiving attention, this time from an NHK TV programme which delves into their dismal pay and the increasing pressure of outsourcing to poorer countries.
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Japanese men and women asked to rank what makes them jealous of their friends offer up an unsurprisingly materialistic list, with some significant differences between the sexes.
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In an unusual show of mercy, Japanese courts have ruled that a mother who killed her own son under the most tragic of circumstances will not have to serve a prison sentence.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 19, 2010 19:23 JST
- Tags: Aichi, Bizarre, Crime, Hikikomori, Internet, Mental Illness, Money, Murder, Otaku, Shopping

The bizarre case of a hikikomori who went on a berserk killing spree after losing his Internet access, slaughtering his defenceless baby niece and killing his own father, was in fact far stranger than anyone save the family realised – it appears the hikikomori had taken control of the family completely in order to satisfy his obsessive compulsions, finally destroying them when they rebelled against his domination.
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Younger Japanese women surveyed as to what traits they consider warning signs that a man is unsuitable dating material and has no girlfriend yield up a potentially helpful list of things an unpopular man might wish to pretend to avoid doing.
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A man who found and reported a lost bankbook claimed 15% of the legitimate owner’s $200,000 bank balance as a finder’s reward, and courts agreed the owner must pay.
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The latest menace to grace the pristine streets of China consists of little girls accosting passers-by by clinging to their legs, refusing to release them until they agree to buy flowers.
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