
Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of two jailers for murdering a prisoner by discharging a fire hose into his rectum – not that they will be going to jail themselves, as both had been given suspended sentences.
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A man living as a hikikomori hermit for the past 30 years has been arrested after it transpired he had hid his mother’s corpse for 3 years so he could use her pension to steal $80,000 to fund his plamo hobby.
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Murder charges against a woman who stabbed an old lady to death for no reason have been dropped and the woman released, despite accusations that the murder was premeditated.
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Rarely has anything made from cardboard seemed so imposing as with this cardboard Gundam statue.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Aug 8, 2010 00:28 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Courts, Feminism, Internet, Litigation, Loli, Mass Media, Nagoya, UNICEF

UNICEF Japan, the children’s charity noted for considering the rights of imaginary children as more important than those of real ones, and for funding the lavish lifestyle of Agnes Chan, has come under sustained attack for its heavy handed attempt to muzzle a critic, using donations supposedly intended to feed starving children to fund a campaign of legal action against him.
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This aspiring Love Plus cosplayer appears to have become confused as to whether a Rinko cosplay is supposed to involve just the girl, or the DS as well…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jun 15, 2010 02:23 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Internet, Nagoya, Naruto, One Piece, Schoolboys, Shonen, YouTube

A schoolboy who uploaded manga to YouTube in advance of its release has been arrested for copyright infringement.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Aug 13, 2009 00:51 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Exhibitionism, Fashion, Mizugi, Nagoya, TV, Voyeurism

Police were powerless to stop this bikini exhibitionist’s beach rampage, though they and TV cameras followed the micro-sling bikini wearer’s every move carefully lest a slip up, or out, result in criminal exposure…
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This Nagoya pachinko company is handling the matter of advertising one of their newer series of games machines (originally based on a manga series) with aplomb, decorating the entire face of their office building in a way that is most familiar to fans of itasha.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2008 03:41 JST
- Tags: Aichi, Cars, Comiket, Crime, Nagoya, Otaku, Theft, Tokyo, Tokyo Big Sight

A young man (18) who stole an old lady’s car at knifepoint has offered his pressing need to attend Comiket as his reason for the crime. He needed to travel some 250km to Tokyo to get there.
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A man (then 25) who had group sex with a pair of thirteen-year-old elementary schoolers, for the princely sum of ¥20,000 (for both), has been arrested on suspicion of a child prostitution offence.
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A schoolgirl helped out her teacher, also her boyfriend, by taking hidden camera footage of her classmates bathing and changing, which was subsequently released on a pornograhic DVD, we hear. The teacher and his adult video producer friend have been arrested for producing child pornography, and police are looking to charge the girl too.
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