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K-On! selling well

Zero — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:18:16 +0000

K-On! The seventh k-on blu-ray disk sold over 31 thousand copies in its first week of release topping the charts as the number #1 on SoundScan Japan and Oricon’s Blu-ray Disc charts for the week of January 18-24.

A bonus episode was included in this volume thats why the sales were so large, making the 7th blue ray disk sell the second best out of all released so far.

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K-on! season 2 air date

Zero — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:54:28 +0000

It has been confirmed that the second season of K-On will be start this year, sometime in April.

Wonder whats going to happen this season, college for the girl’s perhaps? The news of a second season was already confirmed before, but the month of release was confirmed on the official K-on! website just recently.

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K-ON ova! Download

Zero — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:17:16 +0000

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The episode is about the girls performing at their first live venue outside of the school.

I might be a little late on the ball with this one, but I`l make up for it with a download link.

K-ON! Season 2 Announced

Zero — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:52:25 +0000

Popular moe-blob anime K-ON! has just had an official confirmation for season 2. No surprise that this overwhelmingly popular show would be continued by Kyoto Animation. Lets just hope that this does not turn out like Haruhi Suzumiya endless 8.

The second season of K-ON! was confirmed at a live concert in Yokohama, also at the official website here.

The second season of K-ON! was confirmed at a live concert in Yokohama, also at the official website here

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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