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With crackdowns on violators of child prostitution and pornography statutes... Nikkan Gendai [news] wonders how a manager of an online operation that primarily sold lolicon (“Lolita complex”) films was able to evade detection for an extended period prior to his arrest earlier this month. On...

Being a porn star is a dream job for a lot of men. Japan has only 70 such positions in its immense adult video (AV) industry. For those left to contemplate what might have been, there is this month’s release of “The Other Side Of The Sex,” a documentary in which 20 male actors discuss...

Japanese police have launched a probe over a controversial magazine picture of a child in a provocative pose with a naked pop singer, its publisher and reports said Friday. About 670,000 copies of the popular weekly Young Magazine were pulled from stores ahead of its planned sale last...

The United States has warned China that the Senkaku Islands were covered by the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty... Visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Chinese National Defense Minister Liang Guanglie in Beijing that the security treaty obligating the United States to come to the...

China’s most powerful military leader, in an unusual public statement, ...ordered military forces to prepare for combat, as Chinese warships deployed to waters near disputed islands and anti-Japan protests throughout the country turned violent. Gen. Xu Caihou, vice chairman of the Central...

Japan says it will mobilize its coast guard when Chinese government ships reach a disputed archipelago in the East China Sea, raising the possibility of a confrontation between the two powerful Asian nations. China said it sent the government ships to the archipelago in response to the...

TOKYO — Japan will nationalize a group of islands at the center of a territorial row with China... The decision to purchase the islands, which will be formally owned by Japan’s Coast Guard, was aimed at their “quiet and stable maintenance”. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao however insisted...

The owner of a gift shop in front of Sengakuji temple in Tokyo is seeking to return a Hinomaru flag that was apparently given to a Japanese soldier to commemorate his dispatch to the front late in World War II. Yoichi Koizumi, 63, the owner of Koizumi Gishido, said that in early June a...

Oron last month was hit with Corbin Fisher's $34.8 million suit, alleging the file-locker site is liable for rampant copyright infringement. Almost immediately, a federal judge in Las Vegas signed orders for a temporary restraining order effectively freezing all of its assets, with the...

Thursday, July 26, 2012, 3:18 PM A volcanic eruption spewed flames into the southern Japanese sky and blanketed a nearby city with ash. Debris filled the air in Kagoshima City, wreaking havoc with transportation, forcing residents to wear facemasks and prompting extensive cleanup efforts...

TOKYO -- Japan on Tuesday flagged the [PLA's] growing role in shaping the country's foreign policy as a security risk... In its annual defense white paper, Tokyo said some believe that relations between the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Communist Party leadership were "getting...

Like many famous people and other celebrities online, Kim Dotcom has many tens of thousands of fans and followers. However, not all of these people have his best interests at heart. The problem comes when people do a search for Kim’s Twitter account using Google. Although his own account...

Flava Works, known for winning its landmark lawsuit against MyVidster, a case which involved Google, Facebook and even the MPAA, is now targeting two prominent file-hosting services and 26 of their users. In a complaint filed at a federal court in Illinois, the cyberlockers are joined by 26...

A diverse crew of Internet businesses, advocacy groups, and lawmakers has banded together to create something called the Internet Defense League. The organization seeks to save the 'Net from bad laws like SOPA. And a cat signal—modeled after the signal used to rouse Batman each time Gotham...

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is confined to his mansion near Auckland as he waits for the New Zealand courts to decide whether to extradite him to the United States. But that didn't stop him from penning a defiant open letter to Hollywood. "The very powerful and the very stupid have one...

On the day Megaupload was shut down, the company website listed rapper/producer Swizz Beatz as company CEO. The popular rapper/producer was one of the stars who endorsed MegaUpload in public, and he reportedly recruited several artists for the [infamous] Mega Song promotion. Beatz, real name...

About 400,000 people were ordered or advised to leave their homes in southwest Japan Saturday as heavy rain pounded the area for a third day leaving 29 dead or missing, officials and media said. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of more landslides and floods on the main southern island...

In recent weeks, PayPal has cut off many of the world’s largest filehosting sites from its service including MediaFire, Putlocker and DepositFiles. In recent months, PayPal has stopped working with these and dozens of other file-hosting services, citing piracy concerns. To be accepted by...

Last month, adult studio Corbin Fisher (through owners Liberty Media) sued the operators of file-hosting service Oron for a cool $34.8 million, claiming that they induce the sharing of copyright infringing files via their service. The rhetoric in court filings has been harsh, with Liberty...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Fireworks, hotdogs and good times is often what comes to mind when thinking about Independence Day. On July [4], the 374th Force Support Squadron will bring those traditions and more to life... Independence Day is a major holiday in the United States and overseas...

Kanae Hara at Gow Magazine writes: “Just this year, I’ve had one friend get married to an American and another to an Australian. Both of them moved overseas with their partners. They both tell me that foreigners are more expressive with their love and make them feel happy to have been born a...

[The] hacker group Anonymous has launched cyber attacks on Japanese government websites. The attacks are a response to last week’s revision of Japanese copyright law, which added harsh new penalties for illegal downloading. According to a statement posted on the Internet, Anonymous...

Two prominent seismologists said on Tuesday that Japan is ignoring the safety lessons of last year's Fukushima crisis and warned against restarting two reactors next month. Japan has approved the restart of the two reactors at the Kansai Electric Power Ohi nuclear plant, northwest of...

Thanks to a development team known as Webempires, we can take a causal gander at this global market full of surprising results with their number one website by country map. Looking at their map we can clearly see Google’s grip on the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Australia...

It looks like it’s going to be another hot summer here in Japan and as the country calls for voluntary power cuts to cope with post-March 11 shortages, the Japanese people are using their head to come up with eco-friendly ways of keeping cool. And we mean literally using their head: net...

Kanagawa and Kyoto prefectural police last Wednesday arrested five employees affiliated with a restaurant chain that features [underage] female staff members in revealing clothing. “Of the 16 girls on staff at the time, nine were under the age of 18,” says a local newspaper reporter. “With...

TOKYO (AFP) — About 20,000 people gathered in front of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s residence in Tokyo late Friday to protest his decision to restart two nuclear reactors. “No to the restart!” shouted the protestors, who were led by investigative journalist Satoshi Kamata and Nobel...

The Recording Industry Association of America wants to put an end to software and services that enable people to rip songs from music videos. Two days after YouTube-MP3.org, a site that converts songs from music videos into MP3 files, was blocked from accessing YouTube, the RIAA has asked...

Despite the huge upheavals of the last few months, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has announced that his answer to the music industry’s outdated business model is coming soon. The Megabox service will shift the balance of power away from multi-billion dollar corporations to the artists who...

FUKUSHIMA -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s final report on the Fukushima nuclear disaster has triggered a major backlash from prefectural residents and authorities who call it weak and even laced with falsehoods, it has been learned. "We still don't know what happened in the cores of...

New in-car camera/rearview mirror from Hamwha... It looks more or less like a normal rearview mirror but has an internal camera pointing forward to record what’s happening in front of your vehicle. Unlike other in-car recorders that you attach to the windshield, the advantage of this...

Former chief of staff of Japan’s Air Self Defense Force, General Toshio Tamogami, was dismissed in 2008 after he published a politically incorrect magazine article... he now spends part of his retirement writing a weekly column for Asahi Geino. ... in his latest installment (June 14), he...

TOKYO — P8bSWgknGAQ This commercial is for a popular item on KFC’s menu called Krushers which is like an ice cream flurry. Kyary pamyu pamyu, who is a popular fashion model/singer, is the main character featured in the Krushers commercial...

The US government has been ordered by a New Zealand High Court judge to immediately prepare to copy the 150 terabytes worth of data held on Megaupload servers seized by the FBI in order to turn it over to indicted founder Kim Dotcom. Included in the 150 terabytes of data are over 10 million...

Many Japanese women... prefer pets to parenthood. Startlingly, in a country panicking over its plummeting birthrate, there are now many more pets than children. While the birthrate has been falling dramatically and the average age of Japan's population has been steadily climbing, Japan has...

TOKYO — The number of people who took their own lives in Japan in 2011 was 30,651, the 14th consecutive year the figure has exceeded 30,000, the National Police Agency said in a white paper released Friday. The white paper said there was a spike in suicides between April and June...

The Japanese Atomic Energy Agency devoted a page on its website to an effort to "make the hard words used in the nuclear power industry" more easy to understand, particularly for women. The page, which included a cartoon of an angry, fist-waving wife and her cowering husband, compared...

...actress and model Sora Aoi is said to be the most famous Japanese person in China. She commands over 11,180,000 followers on China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform Sina Weibo—enough to start a potent revolution if she were so inclined. If numbers aren’t enough to convince you of...

TOKYO- Mobile phone operator Softbank Corp said on Tuesday it would soon begin selling smartphones with radiation detectors, tapping into concerns that atomic hotspots remain along Japan’s eastern coast more than a year after the Fukushima crisis. “The threat from the nuclear accident cannot...

The National Police Agency (NPA) [is being] forced to establish a special committee to deal with a surge in crimes committed by police officers, including robberies and molestations. In the first three months of this year alone, disciplinary measures have been handed down to 110 officers, of...

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is demanding access to 135 computers and hard drives that were seized from his home in January, so the data can be used for his defense. Until then, he refuses to give up passwords to encrypted data stored on the machines. [Dotcom's] lawyer argued that the data...

AFP - A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities. Mao Sugiyama had his penis and testicles surgically removed in March and kept them frozen for two months...

(Reuters) - Scientists have found a "superbug" strain of gonorrhea in Japan that is resistant to all recommended antibiotics and say it could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat. The new strain of the sexually transmitted disease -- called H041 --...

Oh Japan... By Paul Tamburro I'd wager that at least 90% of the world's porn emanates from Japan. Now I understand that "sex sells", but the frequency with which the Japanese shoehorn a pair of boobs into their commercials makes me wonder how anything ever gets done around there - when...

Akimoto Yasushi's idol group from Osaka, Japan, NMB48 gets its name comes from NaMBa, an alternate romanization of Nanba, a district of Osaka. Oh yeah, and the fact that there are 48 performers, broken up into different teams. Junjou U-19 ("Innocence Under 19") is the group's 3rd single...

Rates of anoxeria and bulimia in Japan are increasing more rapidly than anywhere else in the world, with one in 100 Japanese women dealing with an eating disorder. In fact, women in Japan are consuming fewer calories than they did in the Second World War. A third of the population of Japan...

Osaka has the highest crime rate in Japan both as a city and a prefecture with more r***s and murders than any other city. While this may come to a surprise to foreigners it certainly does not surprise the locals who are all uniformly weary of a certain location in Osaka: Nishinari-ku, a...

You may have heard of the recent dental trend in Japan called tsuke yaeba, where women get their canines capped to get a crooked set of chompers. If so, you might have guessed that a snaggletooth girl group couldn’t be far behind, and here they are: TYB48. Eighteen-year-olds Nana, Mio and...

During a recent Congressional delegation trip to Japan, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden witnessed with his own eyes the horrific aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The damage situation was apparently so severe, according to his account, that he has now written a letter to Ichiro...

Shin Dong-huyk is the only person known to have escaped from a North Korean prison camp. He was born into a life of enslavement and torture inside Camp 14, where he was starved, beaten and forced to watch the executions of his mother and brother. His body bears many scars — his finger was...