
Even America’s Chinese American community has been mobbing up to express its hatred of the Japanese and unreserved support for China’s territorial claims, with thousands demonstrating in San Francisco under patriotic banners – though ones supporting the PRC rather than the USA.
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Major US manga publisher Viz Media has confirmed that it will be sacking 40% of its workforce.
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WonderCon 2010, San Francisco’s top comic convention, was held recently; aside from the Imperial Stormtroopers and Klingons seemingly omnipresent in large numbers at all such American events, plenty of other cosplay was on show, including much of the upside of an American style diet…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 4, 2010 11:31 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Korea, Police, San Francisco, USA

Korean cyber-terrorists have announced their intent to launch a second wave of attacks aimed at forcing 2ch offline again, for reasons nobody is quite sure of, even as the FBI has begun investigating the previous incident as a criminal attack on a US enterprise.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 3, 2010 04:34 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Korea, Police, San Francisco, USA

The recent Denial of Service attack on 2ch (now fully operational again) is being investigating by the FBI as an act of cyber-terrorism, with the host reporting $2,500,000 in damage caused by disruptions which also impaired access to US government servers.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: May 7, 2009 16:52 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Events, Marketing, Onanism, San Francisco, Sports, Tenga, USA

Japanese competitive onanists have once again ensured their great nation’s reputation is maintained in a masturbatory tour de force at the 9th Annual Masturbate-A-Thon; a Japanese contender again holds the title of World Masturbation Champion.
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Two Japanese men have delivered an apparently record breaking self stimulatory performance in San Francisco, in a carefully orchestrated piece of marketing for Tenga. Emblazoned proudly with the Tenga maxim “New Adult Concept”, on red jumpsuits, the intrepid duo of Norihiro Taneichi and Masanobu Sato displayed considerable endurance; Taneichi managed to perform for 8h 40m, although we are not told just how many times they achieved completion (a suspicious omission if ever there was one).
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