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Rapelay banned one more time!

Zero — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:35:11 +0000

This time Rapelay has the privilege of being banned in Argentina, For those that have no idea what Rapelay is check this out ( its work safe).

Argentina has banned controversial adult computer game Rapelay. Rape games have been banned in Japan. So what gives Argentina?

According to the country’s justice ministry, the game is a “clear apology for the crimes of sexual abuse, rape, torture, discrimination against women and paedophilia”.

“Necessary measures are being taken to prevent the release of the software, in which a man released from prison seeks revenge against a teenager, who reported him for trying to rape a friend,” says Justice Minister Julio Alak, “and decides to abuse her, her mother and her 12-year-old sister.”

Blog Legal News points out that under Argentine law, those who reproduce, release or distribute “all representations of a minor engaged in explicit sexual activities and all representations of their genitals for predominantly sexual ends” will be sentence to prison terms of six months to four years.

The game was released in 2006 and in no longer in print, but it’s still creating controversy.

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Akihabara killer apologizes

Zero — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:25:16 +0000

Tomohiro Katō the man responsible for 7 deaths and injuring 10 people in the Akihabara massacre faces a possible death penalty for the worst murder case in Japan in the last 7 years. In court Tomohiro Katō apologized for his crime;

“I first would like to use this opportunity to offer an apology. I am deeply sorry to the people who died, those who were injured, and to the bereaved family members.”

He has also apologized to one of his victims a tax driver, 56 year old Hiroshi Yuasa;

“However much I repent, however much I apologize will never be enough to make things right, and since my crime deserves death 10,000 times I think I will be sentenced to death.”

He describes the pain that the victims are feeling as such;

pain “must be something like the uncontrollable anger I felt when my online self was killed on the forum I spent all my time on by trolls.”

Before the akihabara massacre took place Tomohiro Katō posted his plan on a phone bulletin board;

I Will Kill People in Akihabara

06/08 05:21

I will come barging in with a vehicle, and if I can’t use the vehicle, I will use a knife. Farewell, everyone

For everyone out there do you believe that Tomohiro Katō’s apology is sincere? Does he deserve the death penalty?

Akihabara has had a recent upgrade in security because of the Akihabara massacre

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High school employee arrested for paying underage girl for sex

Zero — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:40:00 +0000

Police on Tuesday arrested a manager at a high school in Kawasaki’s Asao Ward on charges of violating the child prostitution and pornography laws after he allegedly paid a 17-year-old student for sexual services.

Police said 52-year-old Minoru Komura was arrested on suspicion of paying 60,000 yen to a girl he had met through a prostitution club and receiving sexual services from her at his apartment in Yokohama on June 6. He reportedly met the girl several times, paying her 60,000-100,000 yen each time.

The Board of Education released a statement, saying, “This is a deplorable act for someone who works in school administration. We will deal with the incident with the utmost severity.”

Via Japan today

Rate of repeat crimes hits record high

Zero — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:09:14 +0000

The rate of repeat crimes among offenders marked a record high of 41.5% last year, the Justice Ministry said in a white paper on crime released Friday. Meanwhile, the number of overall Penal Code offenses, excluding automobile-related crimes, remains on a downward trend, falling for the sixth consecutive year last year to 1.82 million cases, down 4.8%.

The number of murders, however, increased 8.2% from 2007 to 1,297. The number of foreign nationals apprehended for committing Penal Code offenses except for traffic violations decreased to 12,611, down 5.5%. They accounted for 3.7% of all non-traffic law violators last year.

Among the some 340,000 Penal Code offenders apprehended last year excluding those breaking traffic laws, about 141,000, or 41.5%, were repeat offenders, marking the highest rate since 1968 when relevant data became available.

The white paper stressed the need to prevent recidivism Friday as part of efforts to reduce crime as some 54% of inmates in Japanese prisons are repeat offenders.

This year’s report stressed the importance of recidivism prevention focusing on theft and violation of the stimulants control law—the two types of crime with a high tendency of recidivism.

Last year, 174,738 people were apprehended for committing thefts, while 11,231 people were identified as violators of the stimulants control law.

Among stimulants control law offenders, 154 of the 519 surveyed, or about 30%, reengaged in criminal activities of whom 128, or over 80 percent, committed drug violations again.

The white paper also looked into the backgrounds of these offenders, such as their employment status and other conditions.

The result showed that for theft offenses, 14.5% of those steadily employed committed theft again, compared with 20.3% for those with irregular employment and 28.2% for those unemployed.

Stimulants control law violators showed the same tendency, with the comparable figures being 17.1% for those steadily employed, 23.4% for those with irregular employment and 29.5% for those unemployed.

Via Japan today