Remember the Akihabara murders in June last year? Seven were killed and 10 were injured in a hit-and-run and stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s otaku shopping district. The culprit, is Tomohiro Kato, who is facing trial for his actions.
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Users who have a modded Xbox console might have found a treat for themselves on Halloween.

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With Nintendo ratting out R4 sellers, it’s not strange that you have to resort buying your R4 in a random apartment building – not a shop ^^”

See the sign? It means “R4″ in Japanese. And they are not pointing to a shop, but an apartment!
Earlier on:
Nintendo is asking for the cease of marketing, sales and importation of these Chinese-made devices. The R4 allows easy software piracy by fitting right into the DS’s cartridge slot. Data is stored on a Micro SD and downloaded from websites via a flash drive, and …

Another case of seiyuu getting stalked by their fans. On July 10, Japanese police arrested a 27-year-old unemployed man named Jun Sasaki on suspicion of defaming and stalking the seiyuu Haruna Ikezawa.

Sasaki is suspected of writing defamatory messages on Ikezawa’s official website in February. Between February and April, he sent 16 email messages to her mobile phone. One of the messages commanded her to ride the bullet train alone to Morioka. The email messages were sent to request a personal meeting with her.
Scary is scary indeed. Why are they fans …

Police have arrested a 25-year-old unemployed man from Fukuoka, suspected of mailing threats against voice actress Mai Kadowaki.
You might know Mai Kadowaki, who voices characters like Mimi Usa from Kodomo no Jikan, Sanya V. Litvyak from Strike Witches.

Authorities said that the suspect, named Satoshi Yamazaki, had sent at least one threatening letter to Kadowaki’s agency last November. The message included lines such as “I will kill your parents within one month.” There were other threatening notes besides that note too.
Yamazaki admitted guilt, saying that he was a fan of Kadowaki. …

So how many of you here has built a Gundam before? You know how much hard work it takes right? So imagine a scenario where your suspect your mom wants to throw it all away. Does that justify attempted suicide by trying to burn down your house with you inside? Apparently this man in Kasai city seems to think so.

Police in Kasai City near Kobe have arrested a 29-year-old factory worker named Yoshifumi Takabe on suspicion of burning down his own home on Sunday. The suspect reportedly doused his room …

Noriko Sakai, actress and singer has been arrested after turning herself in to the police on Saturday evening. She’s known for her performance for the theme songs in Gunbuster, Video Girl Ai, and Anime Sanjushi.

I have been following the news since the arrest of her husband, Yuichi Takaso. But what was more interesting was Noriko Sakai going missing after he was arrested.

Uploading games on the net does not pay!

Objection!
The Kyoto District Court found a 38-year-old man guilty of breaking the Copyright Law on Monday for distributing pirated software for the Nintendo DS console on the Internet.
Yoshiaki Asagiri was sentenced to 30 months’ in prison, 2 million yen in fines and 7.13 million yen in additional damages.
It’s also known that late last year, Asagiri was arrested for creating a website that made over 1,000 DS games available for download.
Hm, catching one might instill fear in the other uploaders, but I guess as …

Facebook, the latest social-networking tool may very well cause you to choose it over free games ^^”.
The latest firmware update, 1.4 allows users to have direct Facebook photo uploading.

This latest DSi update seems to have once again nixed piracy devices for the DSi. According to one Japanese site, the update makes it impossible to use the following cartridges: DSTTi, Hyper R4i, ak2i, R4 Ui, R4i Gold, EZ Vi. [Kotaku]
I know I’m not a fan of those social networking tools since I can’t concentrate on so many(facebook is still a …