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Friday, June 5, 2009

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A typical conversation between my staff
Kristen: Johann....Isaac.....why are you so into rapists???
Johann: It's not my fault! It's the news fault!!!
Isaac: Yeah! The news!!!
Kristen: *holding up the scripts* But, what the hell?! For two days in a row you give me rapists??? You guys are just regular pervos......
J&I: What??!!!

Okay, anyway.......

The controversy over the recent mishandling of a case of gang rape amongst its students by a Kyoto university has intensified with the news that one of the rapists had just started working as a middle school teacher, and the university apparently deliberately refrained from reporting that they investigated him (which they did not report to police) so he could continue working as a teacher.

The university, the Kyoto University of Education, trains teachers, and amongst those arrested recently for gang raping a fellow student at the university recently was a fresh graduate who had just started working at a local middle school.

He had apparently just started working as an assistant teacher at the school after receiving his licence, but after the details of his participation in the crime emerged the university not only did not report him to police, it did not even inform the local educational board about him.

Considering the remarks of the university head, it seems likely this was done to protect his career, and most likely also the reputation of the university. Whether the university took this into account in refraining from bringing in police at all is an open question.

With the media storm which ensued, the university finally decided to report that he had been suspended (although it seems he managed to graduate and start work despite being suspended months ago all the same) to the educational board. The teacher then immediately resigned, “for personal reasons.”
It seems the number one target for reducing sex crimes in Japan should be the teaching profession, as it looks to be packed with rapists, chikan and lolicon

On June's side, everything is going smooth.....for now....
Hatsune Miku’s long awaited PSP debut, entitled Project Diva and due at the end of the month, has spurred the population of NicoNico Douga into a veritable buying frenzy, with some 3,500 Nico-goers having already made their pre-orders, an impressive number considering sales of this kind of game are usually modest.

This may of course bear no small connection to the fact that the success of NicoNico Douga is intimately bound up with the Hatsune Miku boom, and it seems neither could long survive without the other…

Of course, cunning Miku-marketing seems also to have no small effect here.

In more news.....Wii rips off PS2
Nintendo has delighted its fans by finally offering the Wii in the same colour as the dark of night and the raven’s wing, but between it and the “Classic Controller Pro”, certain similarities to Sony’s PS2 are noticeable:

The “kuro” Wii gets its release in August.

Unkind observers might even jibe that the similarities hardly end with the casing, for the Wii has never impressed with its power… Of course, this flattering imitation evidently works both ways.

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