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Tohoku Pacific Earthquake
Sendai, Miyagi prefecture (Kyodo News/Associated Press) I don’t normally like to write about breaking news because generally I find that I have neither the first-hand expertise nor the retrospective hindsight to comment on most real-time events non-trivial. The story would … Continue reading
Japan Trip 2011
Miyajima, Hiroshima (sauce) It seems like I’ve been going to Japan every year for the past few years due to various reasons, so I guess this should not come as a huge surprise. Yes, I am flying to Japan again. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged japan, japan rail pass, kansai, kyushu, shinkansen, tokyo, travel, trip
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Predictions on the fallout from Tokyo’s anti-manga law
Gadget Tsuushin (getnews.jp) has made some tongue-in-cheek predictions about what will happen now that the Tokyo Metropolitan legislation restricting sales of certain targeted manga and anime has been passed.
Posted in Otaku
Tagged censorship, ecchi, getnews, hentai, humour, industry, japan, law, lolicon, shintarou ishihara, tokyo
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Tokyo Government passed anti-manga bill into law
Sad panda is sad Today, 15 Dec 10, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly passed Bill 156 into law. As previously discussed, this law gives the Tokyo government additional powers to restrict the sales of manga, anime and video games based on … Continue reading
Posted in Otaku
Tagged censorship, ecchi, hentai, industry, japan, law, lolicon, shintarou ishihara, tokyo
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Tokyo Government to pass tough ordinance against mature manga
The law doesn’t touch this The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is set to pass new legislation restricting the sales of manga depicting certain sexual acts to minors under eighteen. Contrary to what certain easily-excitable individuals may proclaim, this is not a … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Manga, Otaku, Rant
Tagged censorship, ecchi, hentai, industry, japan, law, lolicon, shintarou ishihara, tokyo
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Comiket 75 – Cosplay Photos
The cosplay area at C75 The three-day long holy celebration of otakuism that is the Winter Comic Market came to a close yesterday. This is my second Comiket, and probably the last one in a long time. I am still … Continue reading
Comiket 73 – Part III: Random Shots
I’m back in Singapore. I had fever yesterday. Gao. Anyway, I sorted through my photos and I realized that they were quite shitty. I blame it all on the lighting. Because Japanese are completely asinine about getting their photos taken, … Continue reading
Comiket 73 – Part II: Loot
I’m back from the last day of Comiket. I took a ton of pictures today with my press pass but I will only be posting them at a later date. First, I shall go through my spoils. I spent less … Continue reading
Lucky Star in Saitama
Today was almost as tiring as yesterday because I had to lug my 2.5kg laptop around. An EEE PC would really come in handy when I’m traveling. It’s the fourth day of our little adventure in Tokyo and we took … Continue reading
Otome Road and Doujinshi
It’s my second day in Tokyo. It’s only 8pm right now but it feels like midnight because the sun sets at 4pm… We overslept and missed Tsukiji, and ended up spending the whole day in Ikebukuro. (Otome Road in particular.) … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Money
Tagged doujinshi, ikebukuro, japan, otome road, pictures, tokyo, trip
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