[Rakshasa]

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Issue #23

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US Sailors Gang Rape Okinawa Woman

This one hit me pretty hard. Read about it a couple of days ago on BBC and thought it might be interesting to see if there will be any reactions here in AA.

A pair of US sailors have been arrested for gang raping an Okinawan woman they plucked off the street, with the incident threatening to further inflame anti-base sentiment in Okinawa, even as Japan’s legion of online rightists provoke widespread disgust by attempting to recast the rapists as innocent victims of an evil Chinese “honey trap.”
The incident occurred on Okinawa, where a Japanese woman was on her way home from work at nearby dining establishment at around 4AM one morning, when a pair of men she had never met before accosted her and sexually assaulted her.
She suffered minor injuries to her neck during the attack, and may also have had her bag stolen. Both men were said to have been drinking. She fled to safety, and the incident was soon reported to police.
A brief manhunt ensued, and the first of the suspects, 23-year-old Seaman Christopher Browning, was arrested at 7:30AM the same morning at a nearby lodging.
Subsequent searches turned up Petty Officer Third Class Skyler Dozierwalker, also 23, on a nearby street early in the afternoon.
They face a variety of charges ranging from gang rape to assault. One of the men admits the charges, whilst the other maintains they are “mistaken.”
Both men are said to have been based at a naval airbase in Forth Worth, Texas, rather than being permanently stationed in Japan, although few seem to consider this distinction particularly pertinent.
Under the current SOFA arrangements between the US military and Japanese government, on base crimes are typically dealt with internally by the US, whilst off base crime is handled by the Japanese authorities – although the US can detain base suspects wanted by the Japanese, an arrangement which has been known to antagonise locals when it appears the US is shielding its personnel from justice.
However, in this case both the crimes and the arrests took place off base, notionally eliminating the US from the equation entirely – although it has been alleged that for some reason crimes committed by US personnel off base are markedly less likely to result in conviction than similar crimes committed by Japanese.
Base advocates – both Japanese and US – have also taken to pointing out the crime rates of US base personnel are actually much lower than Okinawan natives, although this rather unlikely sounding assertion is apparently based solely on statistical sleight of hand: the Japanese police only record and prosecute crimes which occur off base, whilst on base crime – where soldiers obviously spend most of their time - is dealt with by the US military.
As expected, with the recent Osprey deployment and the tensions over the nearby Senkaku islands, an already an extremely tense situation has been further exacerbated, and the prefectural governor was said to be “lost for words” on hearing the news – although he sound found them again, wasting no time in lodging a formal protest with the US over the incident.


Opponents of the US military’s Japanese bases have been crowing over the announcement that all US forces in Japan will be curfewed as punishment for 2 of their number gang raping an Okinawan woman with the belief that they would be safely on a US base in Guam by the time cops acted.
Approximately 40,000 navy and air force personnel throughout Japan have been indefinitely banned from leaving their bases late at night.
As the troops involved in the rape were not actually stationed in Japan, the curfew also extends to US military personnel who are just visiting Japan, the first time such a restriction has had to be enacted.

However, as a temporary measure which will at some point probably be rescinded without change if only to appease local entertainment businesses (seen in the video above already moaning about the loss of business), there is not much optimism that any long-term improvement in relations between bases and natives will be realised.
Whilst there has been some relief expressed at the fact police actually managed to arrest the pair before they escaped onto a base, there has been outrage at the fact it appears they planned the rape in advance in the expectation that they would be able to get out of the country before their victim could go to police.
According to their investigations, the pair had booked into a local hotel for a one night and were due to fly to base postings on Guam on the day of their arrest, having apparently planned to rape their victim and then escape to a base on Guam in the expectation that Japanese police would have extreme difficulty in securing an extradition under the circumstances.
They both returned to the hotel after the rape, only to find police waiting for them.
The method they secured their victim – they approached a random woman at night and greeted her with “arigato!,” which she ignored, prompting them to chase her down and throttle her into submission – has also provoked much disgust.
One of the pair admits both men participated in the rape, whilst the other still maintains he was in his hotel room when it took place. Police recovered articles of the victim’s clothing from their room.
The timing of the incident has proven devastating – even as police were moving to arrest the pair, base authorities were chiding protesters for flying kites in the hopes of discouraging Osprey flights, but by the end of the day were themselves being savaged by the prefectural governor for the depredations of their soldiers.

“We Thought An IP Was Proof Of Guilt”

Japan’s police chief has finally apologised for ruining the lives of 4 virus victims suspected of plotting mass murder, all falsely arrested on the belief that an IP address constituted irrefutable proof of guilt, and in several cases apparently coerced into admitting their guilt.
Police now admit that they made a total of 4 arrests based on their belief that IP addresses constituted a 100% guarantee of guilt after the supposed suspects starting making random threats of violence, which had actually been made by remote control after their PCs were infected with viruses.
3 of these suspects have since been released, although the 4th was already convicted and sentenced.
Top police investigators are quoted candidly admitting they were making cyber-crimes arrests without having a clue what they were doing:

“Well, we thought that if we had their IP address the investigation was basically half done. All this is totally unexpected.”

In one of the more tragic cases, police arrested a 19-year-old student at a prestigious university for threatening to kill all the children at an elementary school.
He initially denied the charges, but by the time the court had convicted and sentenced him to probation, he was on record as saying “when I saw those happy kids, I felt they had something I didn’t so I wanted to cause them trouble.”
Having presumably been coerced into signing a confession prepared by police, he was forced to quit university and probably finds his formerly promising career prospects in a shambles as a result.
Police were further humiliated when an anonymous individual claiming to have been the one controlling his PC with a virus contacted TBS to taunt them – it was only this incident which actually persuaded them to reopen the investigation and start questioning him again.
The sole piece of evidence in this case appears to be his IP attached to the threatening message and the false confession police eventually managed to wring out of him.
The chief of Japan’s National Police Agency also made a less than grovelling public apology over the arrests, saying “there is a high probability we did not arrest the real culprits.”
Given the frequency with which Japanese police employ IP addresses to bring a variety of charges, most of which not only end in a conviction but a frank confession as well, there may be a great many similar cases yet to be brought to light – to say nothing of their efforts to arrest the operators of 2ch for drug dealing, gain the power to delete any messages they see fit, and their recent success in criminalising downloads.

Otaku Terrorist Threatens School Over Kuroko’s Basketball

An unknown lunatic has been threatening to use chemical warfare on schools attended by Kuroko’s Basketball mangaka Tadatoshi Fujimaki if he does not stop parodying other manga in his work.
The Tokyo high school from which Kuroko no Basuke mangaka Tadatoshi Fujimaki graduated received a threatening letter accompanied by a suspicious powder, as did his former university, in that case accompanied by some liquid hydrogen sulphide.
The manga’s publisher also received a similar threat, along with a free sample of barium, also hazardous.
The letters threatened that “if you don’t stop your parody manga, the hydrogen sulphide will boil” – alluding to the fact that hydrogen sulphide is toxic in gaseous form.
Police have launched an investigation into the threats. It is not clear just how the chemicals involved could be used in an attack, although given the nature of the threats even Japanese police may not be willing to take any chances.
The exact nature of the “parody” the threats refer to is not clear, but online it is widely suspected a crazed otaku or fujoshi Slam Dunk fan might be responsible.

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Traffic Cone Upskirtist Voyeur Busted By Own Camera

The perverse plans of an exceptionally devious voyeur who secreted a camera inside a traffic cone came undone when not only did one of his schoolgirl prey somehow see through his ruse, but it also emerged his camera had helpfully recorded his own face – and after arresting him police soon discovered his schoolgirl violation antics went much further than just their modesty.
The 43-year-old unemployed Osaka man secreted a camera inside a traffic cone and then placed the cone in a car park along a school route he had determined was heavily frequented by female high schoolers.
He managed to secure a variety of low-angle photographs capturing the thighs and underwear of passing girls, but an incredibly perceptive schoolgirl became suspicious of the newly appeared traffic cone and tipped off her school, who in turn informed police.
Police found the cone in question had been altered by drilling a small hole and then taping a camera attached to sponge padding to the cone interior behind the hole in such a way as to afford an excellent view of passing schoolgirls.
Unfortunately for the devious pervert, it also afforded an excellent view of his own face and car, allowing police to apprehend him easily.
After charging him with voyeurism, the further investigations of police soon uncovered the fact he had paid 5 schoolgirls aged from 15 to 17 for sexual favours, leading to a slew of additional child prostitution charges.

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Washington Library Responds to Complaint About Child Borrowing Yaoi Manga

The B-Town Blog, a local news blog for the Burien area of Washington state, reported on Friday that Travis De Nevers, a local resident, contacted the King County Library System (KCLS) after finding that his 10-year-old niece had checked out the second volume of Makoto Tateno's Hero Heel yaoi manga.

Resident Complains to Library to Change Checkout System

According to the blog, De Nevers' niece, described by De Nevers as a "huge anime fan," checked out a few manga titles after her grandmother dropped her off at the library, including the Tateno title. De Nevers found the title a few days later when going through her books.

De Nevers noted that he saw that the book had a "Parental Advisory" sticker on the cover, and told the B-Town Blog that he opened the book and "couldn't believe what I saw inside." De Nevers described the volume as containing drawings of two men having "rather violent" sex.

De Nevers wrote a letter to Bill Ptacek, the director of the KCLS, as well as Jim Wigfall, the KCLS' board president. The letter explained the incident and said:

How can it be that a young girl can check-out this book? Why would it even be located in a place where children would have easy access to it? It was by chance that I happened to pick up the book from a pile of her library books and noticed the label.
I do not want this to happen again to my niece or other children. I am asking that you review your check-out practices and make the changes necessary to prevent it. Please send me a response detailing your steps to correct this serious situation.

De Nevers also told the B-Town Blog that "What also sickens me is that people are going to the library to read this kind of content? An anime comic book section is where people go to read porn? Around kids? There is no good coming from this being in our library."

King County Library System's Statement

The King County Library System confirmed the incident with ANN, and provided ANN with the following statement:

In keeping with the mission to provide free, open and equal access to ideas and information, KCLS develops its collection to reflect the diversity of the patrons we serve. Materials are selected based on a variety of criteria including, but not limited to, current and anticipated needs and interests of the public and contribution to the breadth of collections. We also expand the collection by responding to requests from patrons, and graphic novels are one of the most requested areas of the collection. When evaluating suggested titles, staff consults industry-related websites, newsletters and blogs. If overall reviews are positive, a title is purchased; conversely, if the consensus is negative, the request is declined.
Although many people associate graphic novels with children and teens, the industry increasingly publishes titles for adults thanks to the popularity of Anime TV shows.

The title checked out, “Hero Heel 2” was catalogued as Adult Non-Fiction. All non-fiction titles, including children's non-fiction, are shelved together. The parental advisory sticker on the cover was adhered to the book by the publisher. KCLS does not apply ratings to its materials but recognizes that certain items in the collection that are popular with some may be considered objectionable by others. For that reason, staff relies on the authority of parents and legal guardians to supervise the reading, viewing or listening use of library materials for their own minor children. KCLS' Parental Responsibility Policy ... states in part, that:
“Parents and guardians are responsible for their children's behavior, safety and welfare while their children are in the library or on library grounds, which includes their children's access to library materials and electronic resources. KCLS strongly recommends that a parent, guardian or other responsible party be present to supervise children ages 12 and younger. KCLS staff is available to assist parents, guardians and their children in the use of the library; however, KCLS staff cannot act “in loco parentis” (in place of a parent) for children in the library.”
The Policy also states that
“KCLS will not limit children to the use of books in the children's section of the library, as these materials may not meet the needs and interests of all children. In addition, library staff is not responsible for determining whether materials used by children and teens are “age appropriate.”

These policies are not unique to KCLS. They are consistent with public library policies across the United States.

KCLS is always happy to suggest reading materials that are in keeping with a family's values and show parents how to use the library catalog to find out more information about a book before it is checked it out.

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Responds

Maren Williams from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) also responded to the situation on Tuesday, stating that:

As CBLDF readers are aware, comics, graphic novels, and manga often face challenges from those who think any book with lots of pictures must be for children. That certainly seems to be the case here, as de Nevers expresses surprise that “an anime comic book section is where people go to read porn.” While Hero Heel 2 likely doesn't qualify as pornography by a strict definition, it is definitely intended for adults, who make up a large part of any library's patron base. Modern public libraries build their collections with a wide variety of ages, tastes, cultures, and interests in mind. There may be indeed be materials in those collections that some parents do not want their children to access, but the responsibility for setting those boundaries lies with the parents, not the libraries.


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Welcome to the NHK!



Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, Psychological

Synopsis
Satou Tatsuhiro, 22 years old, thinks that everything that happens around him is a conspiracy. He even figured out who is behind it all: The NHK, an evil secret company.

"When you think anime, you think otaku. When you think otaku, you think people that dislike other people. Those people become hikikomori (people who shut themselves in)". So Satou manages to uncover the plot of The NHK (stands for Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai), after three years of shutting himself in (and rapidly approaching the fourth).

In reality, he is nothing more than a NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training), desperately in need of a cure from that "disease". He wants to break out from the curse, but going out and getting a job is frightening enough for him. That is until he gets selected for a "project"; it is a plan to help hikikomori like him in facing the reality of this world.

AMV Scope



This piece takes the making of AMV's to a whole new level.. Seriously.

Staff:

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Still looking for additional staff members to help out for a limited amount of time.
PM me to apply, must be ready to scout for articles every week.

If you have suggestions for either the AMV scope or Series Highlights feel free to contact me ^^

[KinGxKeV]

Holy shit that amv was amazing ^_^

and all out good job 👍

[ƒigure]

Great work man, i'm really liking these keep up the good work :)

[Eclipse]

I can't believe that read that whole lot. That's the most I've read this whole week. :3
But, great read man. Nice 23rd edition.

xHysteria.

[Tasemu]

That terrorist otaku story gave me and my housemates a good laugh.

[Rakshasa]

That terrorist otaku story gave me and my housemates a good laugh.

Haha yeah, that was pretty interesting. I personally laughed a tad harder at the IP case though, so much fail in one damn investigation 🤣

[Happeh]

Doing an amazing job here. Loving the news. ^_^

It's alot easier to read it then write, heh.

[Jay‌]

Fucking excellent job man. Although I think we should have a section where you highlight interesting threads such as you already have, but then give them a short summary on top of that. I could help out if needed. 🤝

[Wiggle]

Nice release, I really like how high quality AA is.

[Rakshasa]

Fucking excellent job man. Although I think we should have a section where you highlight interesting threads such as you already have, but then give them a short summary on top of that. I could help out if needed. 🤝

Yeah, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Can you PM me more details on what you have in mind?

And guys, I'm completely open to suggestions on how to improve AA weekly. Don't hesitate to submit your ideas ^^

Nice release, I really like high quality AA is.

Indeed. AA > Any other section in terms of quality 🤝
Spoiler (Click to View)Or so it used to be ;_;

[Japanese Congress]

Yeah, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Can you PM me more details on what you have in mind?

And guys, I'm completely open to suggestions on how to improve AA weekly. Don't hesitate to submit your ideas ^^

Indeed. AA > Any other section in terms of quality 🤝
Spoiler (Click to View)Or so it used to be ;_;

Lawl, at least we're the nicest section on HF :)
Anyways, I'll post a giveaway thread soon.

[atwqn]

Great idea, isn't it? I would like to know more.