- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2012 02:32 JST
- Tags: History, Internet, Korea, Military, Osaka, Politics, Prostitution, Tokyo, WWII

Tokyo mayor Shintaro Ishihara’s latest foray into promoting international goodwill is to assert that Japan’s wartime “comfort women” were all willing Korean prostitutes only interested in the money.
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The case of man arrested for indecent assault for trying to get to second base on a first date is proving controversial in Japan.
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A hikikomori who murdered the sister who had helped support his 30 years of reclusion has been given a 20 year prison sentence for murder, with the judge ruling that the 16-year sentence sought by the prosecution was too lenient and dismissing the defence’s arguments that it was all the fault of Asperger’s syndrome out of hand.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 2, 2012 05:17 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Law, Marketing, Military, Nagoya, Osaka, USA, Weapons

Japanese customs have banned the import of US-made ballpoint pens after determining they constituted “weapons” and “could be used in self-defence.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 27, 2012 23:46 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Beach, Bizarre, Cars, Hyogo, Mizugi, Osaka, Oshiri, Summer

Jet ski riders are being warned to avoid allowing the powerful streams of water propelling their craft along to enter into their anus after a woman died horribly after falling off the back of one.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 24, 2012 20:14 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Comparison, Copyright, Idol, K-ON!, Music, Osaka, Otaku, Parody, Plagiarism


K-ON! fans are fuming at AKB48 sister group NMB48’s apparent cribbing of their beloved anime’s very logo, alleging plagiarism of the most egregious sort.
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Nitroplus’s music producer has had the incredible misfortune to have been stabbed to death in a random knife attack on the streets of Osaka.
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A car chase has ended with police shooting dead the car’s yakuza driver after he repeatedly attempted to ram his way past police.
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Osaka’s mayor has once again been criticising the moral depravity of tattoos, this time warning Lady Gaga that she can forget about working as one of his binmen.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 16, 2012 21:53 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Food, Litigation, Nara, Osaka, Teachers, Theft

Even those familiar with the near legal invulnerability of Japanese teachers have been astonished by a court verdict which saw a teacher who stole ¥766 of food from a supermarket being awarded ¥18,000,000 after her employers had the temerity to attempt to punish her.
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Police are hunting an apparent Precure fan for stroking a little girl in public, alarming creepy otaku watchers everywhere.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 13, 2012 22:58 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Nipponbashi, Osaka, Pantsu, Photography, Police, Teachers, Upskirt

A teacher busted for taking upskirt pictures in an anime shop now faces evidence tampering charges as well, after he swallowed his memory card after being rumbled.
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