Sexual assault and sexual harassment is rarely reported because the women are too ashamed and scared to say anything. And from what I have been told first hand from female friends here, from a number of cities and rural areas, it's definitely not rare.

Yeah,all those people saying there's a lot of perverts in Japan should shut their mouths, if there was really a problem with that kind of thing they would probably have women only carriages on the subways in every major cit....

People need to learn to talk to each other more in Japan, or its gonna get worse.

theres also this commercial thats been airing in japan recently - super mario world anyone?

I've been told from a member of staff at one games co in Japan that their companies pachinko division has brutal working hours..

Sadly it will still contain Tim Rogers` articles, won`t it?

eh? hasn`t all the `Japanese talent` that joined grasshopper recently already U-turned and left for other companies?

Hm, what could Kotaku possibly do to keep the fanboys in a constant state of foaming agreement or vitriol?? Oh that`s right, introduce a binary review system to keep the threads alive and the advertisers happy.

Sadly I have met a fair few english teachers in japan that have been told to teach the kids at their school `katakana english` I met one english teacher at a focus group who started speaking to an employee of the company we were at in english, but in this weird mockery of badly spoken japanese engrish.

chainsaw lollipop?? woody allen making games?? "you got to keep making new titles" ??

the fact that we`re stuck playing games we already played in 1998 suggests it already has that capability...

"According to a Sankei News report on MSN"

The fact that these discrepances didn`t spring to mind straight away before the developers even laid a finger on their keyboard to start programming amazes me somewhat.

let`s be honest, south korea is only considered cool in japan by easily led teenyboppers and lonely housewives interested in waifish, effeminate looking boybands,which are being intentionally targeted at

i view anything involving spontaneous action and free thought in japan with huge suspicion..

doesnt work in japan of all places either FFS!!!

..I have his number if you wanna hang out...

obsessed, repressed social rejects will be obsessed, repressed social rejects.

hordes of otaku in `buying anime gal pantsu/strip game` shocker.

I`ve seen them. he was invited along with other staff to the wedding.