Nagasaki priest says over-tourism, vandalism and theft of amulets led to his controversial decision.
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Ema supporting ongoing Hong Kong protests have been crossed out, snapped into pieces, and written over in Chinese.
Local merchants, and their noses, are offended by the months-long string of piles of vandalism in Japan’s otaku mecca.
Truck-tipping vandalism a major part of tipping-point decision in ordinarily pro-alcohol Japan.
Tokyo police looking at 10 additional suspects, with list including Japanese nationals and foreigners from three European nations.
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Furious itasha owner turns his anime car into a literally painful trap of spikes after trip to Daiso
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Officers establish connection with one other vandal, show there’s nowhere for law-breaking otaku to hide.
Not satisfied with simply robbing a victim of her money, some fraudsters decide to add insult to injury.
An investigation is currently underway after it became clear that more than 300 copies of The Diary of a Young Girl, the book containing the writings of Holocaust victim Anne Frank, have been torn and severely defaced over what is thought to be the past few weeks across a number of public libraries in Tokyo.
Being a teacher is tough. In a sincere effort to mold young minds, many educators have to endure strict regulations, tight budgets, and the unreasonable demands of monster parents. It’s too much for some to handle, as we can see in the case of Yusei Yoshikawa, the 26-year-old teacher who has recently been racking up an arrest per month for vandalizing and robbing his own school.
This weekend Japanese (and other) businesses in China have been the victims of a spate of arson attacks as well as vandalism and looting as anti-Japan protests have escalated to record levels since Japan and China established diplomatic ties in 1972.
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