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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The real Akihabara: ‘publication of the private’
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Events | Film, TV, manga & anime | Interviews | Japan
02:54 PM 
Mark Hiratsuka •
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Anyone with even a passing interest in modern Japan will have heard of Tokyo’s Akihabara district, most likely through squealing newspaper or blog stories detailing just how weird and depraved the one-time electronics Mecca is…
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sexy policewomen talked tough: singer’s jail transcript exposed
What seems to be a transcript of police questioning of Tsuyoshi Kusanagi has been published on a blog. Kusanagi of the singing group SMAP, and star of dozens of TV commercials and the weekly SMAP SMAP TV program, was arrested April 23 at 3 a.m. The singer/actor had been prancing naked and…
Monday, January 26, 2009
ATMs speak up to stop extortion scams
Con artists continually update their techniques for fraudulently getting cash from elderly victims in Japan, but automatic teller machines are catching up quickly.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Stopping ATM scams with cellphone jammers
A Tokyo area bank has begun installing devices that jam cell phone signals in order to prevent elderly citizens from becoming victims of phone fraud. Swindlers have been targeting seniors, telling them to go to the bank and all the while stay…
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Japanese news uses CGI to refute groping allegationsRead the full story
Film, TV, manga & anime | Japan | Software | WTF?
09:22 PM Mark Weitzman •
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After ten years of litigation, the Japan supreme court ruled in favor of a man who challenged an allegation that he fondled a woman on a Tokyo train. The man fought the police charges in 1999…
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