
Japan’s top clothing retailer UNIQLO appears to be facing competition from a gleefully Simmonsing competitor, UN!PRO.
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A husband refused sex by his wife has been jailed for indecent assault after taking matters into his own hands and ejaculating on her whilst she slept.
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China will “only” increase its military spending by 7.5% in 2010, to 532 billion yuan; the force is already the world’s largest with some 3,000,000 members.
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The rapture of the otaku who queued an entire month to meet tsundere seiyuu icon Rie Kugimiya has been picked up by Taiwan’s TV news, with the seiyuu being beset by a throng of infected fans:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 15, 2010 19:40 JST
- Tags: Events, Idol, Mental Illness, Otaku, Records, Rie Kugimiya, Seiyuu, Taiwan, Tsundere

Otaku desperate to meet with tsundere seiyuu queen Rie Kugimiya in her first visit to Taiwan are said to have staked their places in the queue a staggering 25 days prior to her actual arrival.
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Lin I-Chen, or “Eat,” is a Taiwanese artist and illustrator whose spectacular works combine a variety of styles and themes in a manner sure to impress, even going so far as to include some splendid illustrations of men:
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Top Asian micro-blogging service Plurk has apparently been subject to brazen plagiarism by Microsoft China, in a case which raises unsettling questions about the business ethics of both Microsoft and its Chinese developers.
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A conman who duped 20 women into having kinky sex with him by posing as a young man whose father needed sex to stay alive has been arrested. He was also found to have swindled some 6 million dollars from them, and to have blackmailed them with incriminating photos in order to keep them quiet.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 16, 2009 12:50 JST
- Tags: CG, China, Comparison, Eroge, Korea, Moe, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, Visual Novels

Japan is no longer the only country to embrace the visual novel as an artistic and erotic medium; now several other countries have been pursuing their own native developments to varying degrees of success, as can be seen below:
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A survey of 5,000 Japanese reveals that a quarter would rather die in Poseidon’s watery embrace than live in another Asian country.
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The Taiwanese army has apparently adopted Haruhi for use in their recruitment posters…
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A man peacefully relieving himself was shocked to find his most intimate part the subject of an ophidian assault, when a serpent either unexpectedly took fright at his dangling member, or else spied a tasty morsel.
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