



Mere weeks after one of them tried to saw off their hands, AKB48 are again hard at work shaking the hands of their creepy fans – who are now under such heavy guard that the entire process has been compared unfavourably to a prison visit or the more unstable kind of border crossing…
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Arisa Yamato – sadly now likely to remain best known as an assistant on Shingeki no Kyojin for the time being – has had publication of her upcoming new manga cancelled only days before release due to it apparently falling foul of Tokyo’s draconian manga censorship regime, upsetting her sensei Hajime Isayama as well as Ken Akamatsu and others.
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Japanese police are pressing charges against a trio of teenagers for the odious crime of cheating in an online game, the nation’s first ever for this outrageous offence, after MapleStory publisher Nexon fingered them as thieving hackers.
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An American soldier has been arrested for the very Japanese crime of upskirt photography, apparently having spent a little too much time absorbing the local culture.
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The latest establishment to fail in its attempt to stay on the right side of the law whilst satisfying the universal need of Japanese males for schoolgirl contact comes in the form of a “beauty salon” which rather optimistically attempted to get away with having underdressed schoolgirls give patrons oil massages…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Jun 10, 2014 08:41 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, Exhibitionism, Image Gallery, Internet, Law, Osaka, Police


Police have announced a national first in their war on uncensored porn, having busted a couple as they streamed themselves having sex live over the Internet – the streamers in question already having netted some $300,000 this year alone.
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The first AKB48 performance since two of their girls were maimed in a saw attack has finished, but with steel fences between them and the girls, body searches, metal detectors, police guards and physical contact banned there have been complaints AKB48 otaku are now paying for the equivalent of a prison visit – perhaps appropriately enough, as soon after an AKB fan was arrested for a series of arson attacks in the middle of Akihabara.
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A man has been arrested for engaging in indecent acts with a schoolgirl friend after her mother invited him to come to her house to give her some private tutelage and then turned him over to police.
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Tokyo has clarified its decision to ban Imouto Paradise for “improperly glorifying incest” – revealing that it now uniquely defines “glorification” as “not depicting as bad.”
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In the wake of two AKB48 girls being viciously sawed at one of their own handshaking events, police have told the group’s management they must improve security – starting by putting a stop to their infamous handshaking events, widely believed to be the only thing keeping the group on top of the charts…
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Police have arrested an internationally renowned kinbaku master along with his bar’s staff and customers over acts of public indecency which took place in his private BDSM-themed “happening bar.”
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Kadokawa is reporting the Tokyo government has just banned one of its titles as “unhealthy” after tougher new criteria for determining which manga are injurious to their readers were introduced, after police finally got their woman put in charge of the censors.
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