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I've recently stumbled upon this AFP article by Patrice Novotny, and thought of posting the link in the Japan Discussion section of the forum. With nice snippets like "Nearly one in six Japanese lives below the poverty line", and "Temporary and part-time jobs and short-term contracts have...

I've come across this interesting article in Financial Times, about a Japanese company named Cyberdyne that "is building [...] an exoskeleton, which attaches to and amplifies the human body." Being an avid SF reader, I can't believe my senses at the mind-boggling pace to which old...

Please don't take this as a piece of advertisement. This little gem from Opera definitely falls into the P2P section, so I thought I would introduce it here, on Akiba. Please note that it should be used with careful consideration and, of course, exclusively for legit purposes. Opera Unite...

5 Japan teens arrested for file sharing (p2pnet.net, following on Billboard story) June 11, 2009: Japan is hopping smartly to it on behalf of Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US). Five teenagers, all site admins on the One Touch BB, "were...

For those interested in documentaries related to the main topic of this board, here are some links to a handful of them as I grabbed'em from Demonoid: Pornography: The Secret History of Civilization http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1423045/9574145/ Porndemic: Sex in the Digital Age...

So I've just stumbled upon this BBC (very) short documentary made in 2000 and thought I would make its availability known to those who might be interested in watching it. At only 13'45" and 139.4M it's still well worth the watch for foreigners trying to catch a glimpse of the way sex and...

Patient dies after rejection by 7 hospitals THE ASAHI SHIMBUN (2008/10/23) A pregnant woman who was denied entry to seven hospitals despite being close to the due date and with suspected bleeding in the brain died early this month after giving birth, Tokyo metropolitan government officials...

I've just put this great release in my download queue and this reminded me of a conversation on this topic - shoplifting - that I had with my better half some time ago. I mean, there was a time when I seemed to stumble a lot on TV programs featuring mainly innocent looking grannies that made...

You know, that is actually a very pressing question: what's the Best Adult Host Service that you know of? I'm having an adult-oriented site in development and searching for a quality hosting provider can be a real pain. Plus I'm not interested in going on the "free" version; that is, I'm looking...