
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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Police have arrested 3 editors and the CEO of Core Magazine over the May issue of Comic Megastore, all on charges of distributing obscene material.
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Police have arrested a man for the apparent crime of wearing a pink leotard in the middle of Shinjuku.
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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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The arrest of a man who had sex with “close to 100” girls by offering to pay them ¥70,000 a go and then leaving them waiting on the curb as he “went to fetch the money,” in most cases also filming his exploits for a promise of ¥300,000, is currently making waves online – not least after suspicions emerged that he may be the man in a popular series in the distressingly popular “ugly fat old guy doing young girls” AV genre.
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An otaku musician famous on NicoNico Douga has been arrested for having sex with an underage fan who approached him at Comiket.
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AKB48 starlet Minami Takahashi is back in the news again – this time after her off-duty ensemble was outed on Twitter and swiftly became the butt of innumerable jokes.
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Tokyo residents have been marvelling at “China quality” weather of their very own, with the annual toxic dust storms blowing in from China more spectacular than ever – although identifying it as such is apparently now too politically sensitive for the government.
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A Romanian boy who stabbed a young Tokyo woman in the back in a mugging has explained that “stabbing her was simpler than threatening her” and that he needed her money “as I spent all mine at the arcade.”
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Eye-watering rents for tiny Tokyo apartments seem to have reached a new low, with “capsule apartments” in central Tokyo making their TV debut.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 22, 2013 21:18 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cannibalism, Crime, Guro, Law, Penis Abuse, Police, Suginami, Tokyo


All charges against those who cooked and ate a human penis on stage at a Tokyo club have been dropped after it was determined they not actually done anything illegal.
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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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