
With the ending of K-ON! confirmed, speculation as to why it was dumped rages – and most seem to consider the problematic university setting as being at fault.
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Japanese police have opted not to prosecute a trio of students for their Nichijou inspired stunt.
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Kyoto University’s decision to ban its long-standing tradition of graduation ceremony cosplay has been the subject of some concern amongst disappointed students and the wider Internet.
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The girls of K-ON! will be at university in weeks, but not all fans are happy – in fact, the creepiest amongst them seem to be in danger of creating some potentially entertaining drama.
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K-ON!’s upcoming manga continuation is due to cover the university life of the girls, at the same time as Azunyan and company continue at school.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 3, 2011 21:02 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cheating, Crime, Keitai, Mass Media, Police, Sendai, University, Yahoo!

Japanese police have arrested a boy for cheating on his university entrance examination by using a mobile phone to photograph the questions and get the answers from accomplices on the Internet, in what turned out to be Japan’s biggest news story in months.
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A selection of photographs illustrate the life awaiting students in one of China’s many outstanding universities – some scenes may be disturbing.
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A student who offered to have sex with anyone kind enough to complete her programming assignment has been at the centre of a scandal after her boyfriend found out about the affair and exposed her to students and faculty.
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The controversy over the recent mishandling of a case of gang rape amongst its students by a Kyoto university has intensified with the news that one of the rapists had just started working as a middle school teacher, and the university apparently deliberately refrained from reporting that they investigated him (which they did not report to police) so he could continue working as a teacher.
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A university has attracted almost universal criticism for defending at least six men who gang raped a fellow student, refusing to report them to police on the grounds that “they might commit suicide”.
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A university professor (62), who taught logic, over a twenty year period called over a thousand of his female students to his office, where he would beguile them with logic into allowing him to fondle their breasts.
He used the same argument each time, and only recently did a student manage to see through it, resulting in his arrest.
His technique was bizarre, but highly logical:
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