- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 12, 2012 19:06 JST
- Tags: Events, History, Internet, Olympics, Politics, Sports, Twitter, USA, WWII



The well deserved reputation of Americans for tolerance and humility has been highlighted by a series of widely circulated Tweets trumpeting the USA’s Olympic victory over Japan as “revenge for Pearl Harbor” (two nukes and 70 years of suzerainty apparently not being enough), in the otherwise obscure and unwatched sport of women’s football – where the USA received a drubbing at the hands of Japan’s team in 2011, which was responded to with the expected good grace.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 1, 2012 02:58 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Censorship, Idol, Internet, Marketing, Otaku, Production Controversy, TV, Twitter

Major anime broadcaster Tokyo MX has been forced to make a grovelling apology after one of its bosses called the company’s involvement in the creation of an AKB anime “shameful.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 23, 2012 05:40 JST
- Tags: Anniversaries, Eila, Finland, Moe, Otaku, Pantsu, Sanya, Strike Witches, Twitter

Not just creepy otaku but the Finnish embassy in Japan itself has been celebrating the birthday of witchy Sanya-fancier Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen, which falls on the 21st of February.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 13, 2012 00:52 JST
- Tags: Aya Hirano, Ayana Taketatsu, Idol, Internet, Music, Otaku, Rankings, Seiyuu, Twitter

None other than scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano herself has been unseated from her position as most followed seiyuu, with even her fascinating antics not enough to spare her the humiliation of being overtaken by the actor behind one of her on-screen peons.
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A technically inclined onanist has apparently developed a piece of software designed to exploit the notoriously advanced capabilities of the USB Onacon, capable of not only measuring speed, insertion time and other vital onanistic statistics, but even of uploading the results to Twitter so fellow onanists can compare their performance…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 27, 2012 09:46 JST
- Tags: Chikan, Crime, Idol, Otaku, Seiyuu, Stalkers, Trains, Twitter, Voyeurism

Moeblob seiyuu Ayana Taketatsu (Azunyan) has complained of being “peeped at” and filmed by creepy otaku on the Tokyo subway.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 24, 2011 10:36 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Feminism, Internet, Misandry, Pregnancy, Trains, Twitter, Voyeurism

Two Japanese women complaining of a group of men on a train failing to yield their seats to them have ignited a furore online after they denounced all Japanese men as “scum” and proceeded to post photographs of the men online in an effort to shame them.
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Aya Hirano watchers are complaining that the scandal seiyuu’s latest look is “massively degraded” compared even to her pre-scandal appearances, let alone her supposed glory days of long silky black hair.
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Yamakan, in many respects the production staff equivalent to Aya Hirano, is in hot water for his controversial remarks again, this time having spewed some barely decipherable nonsense about the extermination of the Jews…
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Scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano is apparently set to make a comeback as a seiyuu, having revealed that she has managed to secure no less that 4 new roles – although not everyone is convinced.
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Scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano has been berating her fans for sharing pictures of their genitals with her, finally retaliating by taking a hiatus from Twitter entirely.
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Mangaka Kei Aoyama has killed himself, announcing the fact by Twitter.
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