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She’s not real — but his feelings are. A “fictosexual” man who wed a fictional, computer-synthesized pop singer four years ago said he’s now unable to communicate with his wife, but is still in love with her. Akihiko Kondo, 38, was dating Hatsune Miku — depicted in pop culture as a 16-year-old with turquoise hair — for a decade before they had an unofficial wedding ceremony in 2018. Kondo — one of many who identifies as “fictosexual,” or someone who is sexually attracted to fictional characters — spent 2 million yen, or about $17,300, on the nuptials, but his family...

Chinese Warned Dating Spies Is Risk Women Take With Foreign Men In New "Dangerous Love" Comic The Chinese warned dating spies is a risk women take with handsome foreign men. A new “dangerous love” poster was shared across government bulletin boards last Friday in honor of China’s National Security Education Day. Targeting mainly women government workers, the poster warned dating spies could be a real possibility through storytelling in a comic book-style format, according to ABC News on Tuesday. Making its way around the internet, the “dangerous love” poster is being called an odd way for the Chinese government...

A man in Britain has been convicted for his fantasies. Robul Hoque, 39, was found guilty of downloading "prohibited images" of cartoon girls, some in school uniforms, doing dirty deeds. The fact that these manga drawings are available on legitimate sites did not sway the judge. Nor did the fact that—oh yeah—there were no actual humans in the pictures. No humans. So how old, exactly, is a cartoon? Is the cartoon 7, or 9, or just shy of 18? Trick question: A cartoon doesn't have an age, because a cartoon is never born. The life meter never started ticking. If...

Japan’s parliament has passed a law which bans possession of child pornography, but excludes sexually explicit depictions of children in comics, animation and computer graphics. […] The law provides for prison terms of up to one year and fines of up to 1 million yen ($9,800) for having pornographic photographs or videos of children. It allows a grace period of one year for people owning such materials to dispose of them. […] Child advocates and other critics of the new legislation say it is a long-overdue improvement, but are unhappy with the exclusion of depictions of sexual fantasies involving children...

Chinese search engine Baidu is finding that it’s easy to get tangled in nasty copyright issues when it launches websites overseas. In the case of Japan, the flap involves comic books. Baidu (BIDU) launched a Japanese version of its service called Baidu.jp in 2007. The site boasts a Baidu Library file-sharing service where users can upload and download stuff like books and comic books for free. The Japanese site was Baidu’s first website outside of China.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, Headquarters U.S. Forces Japan has developed a manga comic entitled “Our Alliance; A Lasting Partnership” to highlight this historical landmark. Read 永続的なパートナーシップ (Eizoku-tekina pātonāshippu) online

A Japanese serial graphic novel genre popular with young teens has raised the ire of a Crestview mother whose teenage son got hold of an adult version of the genre from the Crestview Public Library. “Manga” depicts highly stylized adventure and, occasionally, violence in fantasy settings. Margaret Barbaree, founder of a citizens’ group called Protect Our Children, presented examples from a manga book to the Crestview City Council last week that she described as “graphic” and “shocking,” taken from material she said is “available to children” at the Crestview Public Library. “My son lost his mind when he found this,”...

TOKYO — In a move to promote serious study of Japanese manga, a university in Tokyo plans to open a library with two million comic books, animation drawings, video games and other cartoon industry artifacts. Tentatively named the Tokyo International Manga Library, it would open by early 2015 on the campus of the private Meiji University, and be available to researchers and fans from Japan and abroad. "Manga has been taken lightly in the past and there has been no solid archive for serious study," said Susumi Shibao, a library official at the university told AFP by telephone. "We want...

TOKYO, Nov. 14 - A young Japanese woman in the comic book "Hating the Korean Wave" exclaims, "It's not an exaggeration to say that Japan built the South Korea of today!" In another passage the book states that "there is nothing at all in Korean culture to be proud of." In another comic book, "Introduction to China," which portrays the Chinese as a depraved people obsessed with cannibalism, a woman of Japanese origin says: "Take the China of today, its principles, thought, literature, art, science, institutions. There's nothing attractive." The two comic books, portraying Chinese and Koreans as base peoples...

U.S. Papers Adding Japanese-Style Comics by Yuri Kageyama AP Business Writer Mon Nov 7, 3:32 PM ET "Doonesbury" and "Peanuts," make way for "manga." Come January, the Sunday funnies of several major North American newspapers will have doe-eyed women in frilly outfits, effeminate long-haired heroes and other trademark images of the Japanese comic style. The reason? Newspaper editors want to attract more young readers. A study released earlier this year by the Carnegie Corporation put the age of newspaper readers at 53 and climbing — hardly a recipe for circulation growth. "We thought if teens and young kids are reading...

Draw Manga, my latest book was released today. A couple of reviews are already on the Net. My sincere thanks to all of you out there who encouraged and otherwise helped me write it. I couldn't have done it without you.

A few days ago my daughter related how she took my ten-year-old Grandson to the Eau Gallie, FL (near Melbourne) public library to check out some books. She turned him loose in the kids' section while she looked for some books for herself. A while later, they each took their stack of books to the counter, checked them out, and went home. My daughter didn't inspect his choices any farther than the covers - big mistake. This is one of the books he chose (cool cover, right?): Gunsmith Cats: Bonnie & Clyde by Kenichi Sonoda Published by Dark Horse Comics"Meet...

ok really this is stupid. i keep on seeing these little bann anime petitions on line it is becomeing very bothersome. i wish the moms would lay off. there really bring unfair. they only gave 2 animes as an example and thoes are clearly said for adults. they dont let go of the grip and its a pian in the ass. im so sick of it. an example of this is Yu-Gi-Oh. in the show when yugi(the main character) summons the dark magcain girl they changed here pentagram to a gam. some other examples are gemini elf(the card) in japan...

OSAKA -- A teacher has been slapped with a one-month pay cut for watching a pornographic video at school, fearing the wrath of his family if he was caught watching it at home, officials said Monday. "I would have been in big trouble if I was caught watching the video at home, so I have been carrying it around in my bag," the 46-year-old teacher was quoted as saying when questioned by Osaka Prefectural Board of Education officials. The teacher at a junior high school in Tondabayashi, Osaka Prefecture, borrowed the pornographic movie at a video rental shop on the...

Man jailed for videotaping roommate in Gardena By Denise Nix DAILY BREEZE A Japanese national is serving 180 days behind bars for secretly videotaping his female roommate while she showered and used the toilet in Gardena. Yasuhiro Ryoki, 35, who is in the country on a visa, was convicted by a Torrance Superior Court jury Sept. 19 of three misdemeanor charges of invasion of privacy by a camera. Judge Michael Vicencia sentenced Ryoki on Wednesday to county jail, 36 months of probation and ordered him to not own or possess any photographic equipment. Vicencia also ordered Ryoki to register as...

Perverted postman deliverssteamy schoolgirl sex videos By Ryann Connell Staff WriterJune 12, 2003     Schoolgirl prostitutes loved the short, fat, balding man because he promised them payments well above market rates. Others were more reserved about the Japan Post Hokkaido Post Office official simply because he seemed to keep to himself, an aloofness required by his position as a watchdog for the newly privatized body's internal affairs. But far from being the detached figure he appeared, 37-year-old Toshio Kobukata was a demon. He duped, according to Shukan Jitsuwa (6/26) hundreds of junior high schoolgirl prostitutes into sordid sex...

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Japan is reinventing superpower—again. Instead of collapsing beneath its widely reported political and economic misfortunes, Japan’s global cultural influence has quietly grown. From pop music to consumer electronics, architecture to fashion, and animation to cuisine, Japan looks more like a cultural superpower today than it did in the 1980s, when it was an economic one. But can Japan build on its mastery of medium to project an equally powerful national message? On Sunday mornings, teenagers crowd the sidewalks of Tokyo’s Shibuya district until they spill over the curbs and into the streets. They start at Hachiko Square, under a video...