
AKB48 boss Yasushi Akimoto is about to be announced as one of the directors of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, much to the despair of those few deluded souls who still thought the event had something to do with sports rather than lucrative backroom deals.
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Japan’s choice of a former PM to head the Tokyo Olympic committee has already borne fruit, after he called English an “enemy language” at the Winter Olympics.
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The Japanese government has been expressing its outrage at mockery of its advanced “pump-it-into-the-sea” nuclear waste management strategy by a French paper.
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The Japanese media has been quick to note that Tokyo’s clinching of the 2020 Olympics was predicted by no less a classic Akira, with the 1988 movie’s 2019 Neo-Tokyo being in the run-up to a singularly ill-fated Olympics.
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Japan’s PM has been praising Islam for “teaching Japan tolerance,” after having been dragged into cleaning up the diplomatic mess left by the Tokyo governor’s undiplomatic if accurate appraisal of Islamic nations as “fighting each other because the only thing they have in common is Allah.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 30, 2013 23:45 JST
- Tags: Crime, Exhibitionism, Marketing, Olympics, Police, Prostitution, Shinjuku, Sports, Tokyo

Police have arrested “porn star” strippers for the crime of exposing themselves at a strip show held at a decades old Shinjuku strip club, after it was pointed out that “they will shame Japan if we get the Olympics.”
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South Korea’s glorious Olympic victory parade, held amidst a torrential downpour and attended only by a handful of soaked photographers and the even more sodden athletes themselves, is currently attracting much attention online, having proved an unintentionally fitting epilogue to an event which has become a virtual parody of itself.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 12, 2012 19:06 JST
- Tags: Events, History, Internet, Olympics, Politics, Sports, Twitter, USA, WWII



The well deserved reputation of Americans for tolerance and humility has been highlighted by a series of widely circulated Tweets trumpeting the USA’s Olympic victory over Japan as “revenge for Pearl Harbor” (two nukes and 70 years of suzerainty apparently not being enough), in the otherwise obscure and unwatched sport of women’s football – where the USA received a drubbing at the hands of Japan’s team in 2011, which was responded to with the expected good grace.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, International, News
- Date: Aug 6, 2012 11:31 JST
- Tags: Events, Exhibitionism, Feminism, Image Gallery, Islam, Olympics, Oppai, Politics


Ukrainian exhibitionist protest group Femen have not spared the Olympics their naked fury, this time protesting the controversies the religion of peace has managed to inject into the event, although with the amount of controversy the event is attracting already they will have their work cut out being noticed…
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Tokyo’s dear leader Shintaro Ishihara’s latest discriminatory outburst has been to insult barbarian judo, saying it resembles “beasts brawling” and that the sport was ruined as soon as the hairy barbarians became involved.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 30, 2012 06:35 JST
- Tags: Events, Marketing, Mass Media, Old People, Olympics, Politics, Sports, Statistics, Tokyo

Tokyo’s dear leader Shintaro Ishihara has accused his subjects of “having become a different race to the rest of the Japanese” after they angered him by refusing to display sufficient enthusiasm for his 2020 Olympic bid.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, H, International
- Date: Feb 28, 2010 08:17 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Canada, Happeningu, Image Gallery, Olympics, Sports, TV, Waki


With the arrival of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, 2ch has taken a sudden interest in figure skating, exclusively of the female variety, and with a particular emphasis on the more appealing athletes.
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