- 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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A schoolboy has hurled himself from the top of one of Tokyo’s tallest buildings, earning much attention for his “bravery” and unusual choice of location.
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South Korea’s glorious Olympic victory parade, held amidst a torrential downpour and attended only by a handful of soaked photographers and the even more sodden athletes themselves, is currently attracting much attention online, having proved an unintentionally fitting epilogue to an event which has become a virtual parody of itself.
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Now police as well as teachers have come under fire, this time for telling a boy who was beaten unconscious and suffered broken ribs and PTSD in as a result of bullying that “it’d be best to forget about” the attack, and for refusing to accept any crime had taken place.
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Tokyo’s dear leader Shintaro Ishihara’s latest discriminatory outburst has been to insult barbarian judo, saying it resembles “beasts brawling” and that the sport was ruined as soon as the hairy barbarians became involved.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 22, 2012 02:08 JST
- Tags: Crime, Misandry, Onanism, Oppai, Police, Teachers, Tokyo, Voyeurism, Yuri

A female elementary school teacher has been caught operating a hidden camera at a pool changing room, saying she “had an interest in the breasts of pretty girls,” although either because she is a woman or a teacher police and her school seem to have decided to let her get off with impunity.
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The birth and death of a baby panda in Japan has jumped from being a media circus to a minor diplomatic crisis after Ishihara began tying them to the Senkaku Islands and Chinese began insisting the Japanese must have killed it to get back at them.
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Tokyo’s notorious governor Shintaro Ishihara has been warned by his own nation’s ambassador to China that his plans to buy some of the Senkaku Islands will cause a diplomatic crisis.
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Top non-ero-manga To Love-Ru Darkness has been officially declared safe for children after escaping a ban at the hands of Tokyo’s manga inquisitors, much to the relief of all concerned.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: May 31, 2012 03:22 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Doujinshi, Ero-figures, Made in China, Mods, One Piece, PVC, Toei, Tokyo

A man has been arrested for selling nude figures of One Piece’s buxom pirate princess Nami, being charged with copyright infringement for not obtaining Toei’s permission to sell the racy items.
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Tokyo has decided not to ban Yosuga no Sora after a member of the public reported it to the state for including forbidden themes of incest and sex.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 30, 2012 06:35 JST
- Tags: Events, Marketing, Mass Media, Old People, Olympics, Politics, Sports, Statistics, Tokyo

Tokyo’s dear leader Shintaro Ishihara has accused his subjects of “having become a different race to the rest of the Japanese” after they angered him by refusing to display sufficient enthusiasm for his 2020 Olympic bid.
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