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From ANN:

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A legislative proposal was submitted on February 24 to amend Metropolitan Tokyo’s youth welfare law on child pornography to include sexually provocative, “visual depictions” of characters who sound or appear to be 18 years old or younger. In addition to clauses that restrict the depictions of “nonexistent youths,” the amendment has clauses to restrict the Internet use of minors through filtering software and services in net cafés and on mobile phones.

According to a March 4 Twitter post of legislator Yukie Nogami, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly’s General Affairs Committee plans to deliberate on this proposal on March 18 and vote on it on March 19. If the proposal makes it out of the committee, it will face a vote by the entire assembly on March 30. If the assembly passes the legislation, it can go into effect as early as October 1.

Sources: ITmedia News, Mumei no Icchizaiseisaku Watcher blog via Canned Dogs blog

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From globalissues.org:

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- According to UNICEF, 25,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”

- Around 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted. The two regions that account for the bulk of the deficit are South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

- If current trends continue, the Millennium Development Goals target of halving the proportion of underweight children will be missed by 30 million children, largely because of slow progress in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

- Based on enrolment data, about 72 million children of primary school age in the developing world were not in school in 2005; 57 per cent of them were girls. And these are regarded as optimisitic numbers.

- Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.

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Guys, something does not add up here. Why the heck is the Japanese government making legislation for the salvation of 2D children when they can do something about real kids that are suffering out there?

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This is abit random but do you sense a similiarity in their auras? And lets not go into how gar and moe these two are…

Today’s episode is about photos.

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The Malaysian leg of the May’N  Asia Tour has just ended, and already there’s quite a bit of controversy regarding concert images and photos that were taken and posted on personal blogs, despite the wishes of May’N’s management that such images and photos not be taken. Before we continue, we should establish an understanding. There is no grey area about this issue… this is a matter of black and white, right or wrong. May’N’s management is certainly within their legal rights to demand that such pictures be taken down, and yes, I will come out and say it: the people who have taken the photos are most certainly in the wrong. 

Reasons after the jump.

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Almost 1 year after Dragonball Kai aired, the moment we have been awaiting for has arrived. If you have not been watching, do catch the action on next week’s dragonball kai.

Its a Sunday morning and Tsubomi don’t wants to wake up…

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They are the same person >.<

For all intentions and purposes, I could not figure out why Aniki is here. But he appears in epi 23 of Kamen Rider W as Ooniki Ichirouta.

Ooooh yeah….

So BakaTest Ep8 was full of fun and Evangelion references. This post won’t be a very wordy review post, but it will be full of nice screenshots. So please look forward to it.

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 Today, S/Mileage was given a challenge. The prize is a major debut in May. Their job is simple, its to collect 10,000 pictures of smiles from around the world. They have 1 month to do it. Pictures collected during this event would be put up on a big 2m by 4m mosaic board.

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