/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11792508
>Nice monitor, school-shooter-san.

I know you were probably joking but man why you gotta say stuff like that. not even him but it hurts my feelings.

The cicada's are singing outside. Am I about to get murdered?

Isn't she a minor character?

What's the best Higurashi adaption?

>The Internet/telecommunications company Softbank along with Yahoo! Japan have launched "Wonder!" This is a social media network that brings together otaku from across the world.

>This social media website allows users from all across the world to upload otaku-esque photos such as: fan-made art usually pertaining to video games & anime, cosplay pictures let alone those taken at anime conventions, pictures of their figurines, pictures of their plastic models, pictures of their plush toys, etc.

>While the language is exclusively in Japanese, anybody can log onto the website through the following Ids: Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo! Japan. If you are not in Japan, it may be best that you brush up on your Japanese language skills. More importantly, you may want to brush up on your proficiency in reading in non-Romanized Japanese.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/338124

I was just thinking how awesome it would be to be in middle school again

hell, to be in school generally
to slack off all the time
to not do homework until the last day
to ignore tests and then after all-nighter pass just so-so

and also
to actually have friends, not disgusting normal-sans

that sort of thinking

rika somewhat related

>tfw this is every time you see a cute girl

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/3388/

Man with knife injures 5 at JR Hakata Station

>"I just wanted to slash anybody," said the man, who identified himself as Kimitaka Nakano, 26, unemployed, of Hakata Ward, after he was arrested at the scene, according to the police.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T121020001986.htm

Neet is so danger. do people think you are a danger person too?

Two US sailors accused of Okinawa rape

>Two American sailors have been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in Okinawa, raising the potential for more protests against the US military presence on the southern Japanese island.

>The suspects, named as Christopher Browning and Skyler Dozierwalker, both 23, were arrested after allegedly raping the woman as she walked home in the early hours of Tuesday.

>The alleged victim, who is in her 20s, later identified the sailors at an off-base housing complex, local media said. The two men, who are in Japanese police custody, had reportedly been drinking before the alleged incident.

>The case has come at a particularly sensitive time for relations between the US military and residents in Okinawa, which hosts more than half of the approximately 47,000 US military personnel in Japan.

>In 2008 the then secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, was forced to apologise during an official visit to Tokyo following the arrest of a US marine for the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa.

>According to the public broadcaster NHK, seven US servicemen have been arrested on rape charges since Okinawa reverted to Japanese control 40 years ago.

lol mercan

John Moss Threat at Reunion: 'Still Seeking Vengeance' 20 Years After Bullying

>"I was picked on and bullied by a bunch of you when I went to school, and I wanted to kill everyone that hurt me," he reportedly posted on his Facebook page. "I'm still seeking vengeance on all those who bullied and harassed me when I was growing up or went to school. You people do not know what you did to me."

>His classmates, noting the threats, called authorities, who investigated the claims and took Moss into custody before the reunion could take place. Moss had attended the Marshall High School and apparently had such a rough time he threatened he "would have started the Columbine shootings" at graduation 20 years ago.

>Moss faces misdemeanor charges and could serve up to one year in prison if found guilty.

hey /jp/, what was it like to attend a school reunion?

History: Tsuyama massacre

>Mutsuo Toi (March 5, 1917 - May 21, 1938) was a Japanese spree killer, who killed 30 people in Tsuyama massacre.It was a murder spree that occurred on 21 May 1938 in a rural village close to Tsuyama city in Okayama, Japan. The massacre resulted in the deaths of 30 people and the serious injury of 3.

>This number of victims had been considered the world's worst massacre by a single criminal for a long time, up until Woo Bum-Kon killed 57 people (the number varies by sources) in 1982 in South Korea.

>Mutsuo Toi was born in Okayama Prefecture. His parents died of tuberculosis, and he was brought up by his grandmother. He was originally smart, but he had been a Hikikomori since his sister was married in 1934.

>Sada Abe, who killed her lover sadistically in May 1936, had a great influence on him. He begun to have sex with many women after that. He often stole into houses to see women. The tradition is called Yobai (夜這い) in Japan. He read a book of Sada Abe's testimony in January 1937. He was writing a novel.

>He however was diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis in May 1937. He grew desperate because tuberculosis was regarded as a fatal illness. Women became cold against him after they knew his illness, and so he hated women. He had sex with many women after that, but he was despised as hypersexuality.

Meet the schoolgirl, 12, who has an IQ of 162... making her brainier than Einstein and Stephen Hawking

>A 12-year-old schoolgirl has been accepted into Mensa after discovering she is brainier than both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

>Olivia Manning, from Liverpool, managed to get a whopping score in an IQ test of 162 - well above the 100 average.

>Her score is not only two points better than genius German physicist Einstein and Professor Stephen Hawking, but puts her in the top one per cent of intelligent people in the world.

> She has now been given the honour of being welcomed into Mensa - meaning she will join a network of brains from across the globe.

>As a confirmed genius, Olivia is now getting celebrity status at her school - the North Liverpool Academy in Everton.

Transgender Danann Tyler, 9, tried cut off his penis with craft scissors.

>When Danann Tyler was just two years old, he insisted he was a girl, and asked to wear dresses and grow his hair.

>His yoga instructor mother, Sarah, 39, and father Bill, 45, a police officer, struggled to explain his behaviour, and put it down to a phase. However two years later, Danann attempted to cut off his penis with a pair of scissors.

>'I found him in the playroom trying to cut off his penis with a pair of craft scissors,' the mother from Orange County, California, told Closer magazine. 'He was weirdly calm, saying, "I'm going to get rid of this". I felt sick.'

>Over the next two years, Dannan was misdiagnosed with ADHD and bipolar disorder.

>Mrs Tyler, who also has an older son, 11-year-old James, said: 'His school work suffered and he started lashing out when I dressed him. I'd have bite marks and bruises. I was devastated.'

>When she refused to let him wear a dress to a party, she says: 'He jumped out of the car and ran into traffic saying, "I want to die".

>'I wondered whether Danann was gay,' Mrs tyler admitted. 'At school he started trying to use the girls toilets and queuing with the girls when they were divided into groups. Luckily, most children at his primary school were accepting.' Meanwhile, Mr Tyler became increasingly angry about his son's behaviour.

>Mrs Tyler said: 'We'd row. He wanted Danann to behave like a boy, but I just wanted him to be happy. I found myself secretly letting Danann wear Cinderella T-shirts.

>'I confided in pals about it and two gay friends agreed they thought he could be gay, but that his behaviour was still very extreme. I was left puzzled.'

IQ linked to levels of happiness

>People with lower intelligence are more likely to be unhappy than their brighter colleagues, according to UK researchers.

>Their study of 6,870 people showed low intelligence was often linked with lower income and poor mental health, which contributed to unhappiness.

>The researchers are calling for more help and support to be targeted at people with lower IQs. The researchers, at University College London, analysed data from the Adult Psychiatric Morbity Survey in England. One of the questions was: "Taking all things together, how would you say you were these days - very happy, fairly happy or not too happy?" People's verbal IQ was also assessed. The highest proportion saying they were "very happy" was found in people with an IQ between 120 and 129 - 43% said they were very happy.

>However, the highest proportion saying "not too happy" - 12% - was found in people with an IQ between 70 and 79.

>Dr Angela Hassiotis said: "People in the lower end of the normal spectrum are more likely to consider themselves not happy."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19659985

The boy who can't forget: Student can remember what he did, ate, and wore from every day in the last decade

>The 20-year-old is one of only a handful of people in the world with hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory. Pick any day from his teenage years and he can recall every detail of it – while most of us will remember no more than 11 events from each year of our life.

>Information about conversations he had, programmes he watched and even songs he heard are all part of Aurelien’s astonishing recall. While Aurelien describes his early childhood memories as ‘vague recollections’ like everyone else’s, things changed around the age of 11. He said: ‘It’s not something that I realised overnight, but when I was 14 I discovered that I was quite good at remembering some things that had happened years before.’

>Only 20 people in the world have been diagnosed with hyperthymesia, and it is believed Aurelien is the only Briton.

>The average person retrieves information such as dates from their long-term memory in the right frontal lobe of the brain.

>Aurelien does the same, but his long-term memory capacity is increased because he also uses the left frontal lobe, which normally deals with language, and occipital areas at the back of the brain, normally used for storing pictures. And all of this seems to happen subconsciously. He said: ‘There’s no method or technique to it. I’m not aware that my memories are being coded.

>However, the English literature student at Durham University insists his remarkable memory does not give him an advantage when it comes to exams or essays. He said: ‘I have quite a good memory generally but, because what I have is a good autobiographical memory, I don’t think it can really help with an academic piece of work at university.’

Autistic boy, 11, handcuffed on school bus in Howard
>"An officer tried to restrain the boy and ultimately placed him in handcuffs for his own safety and the safety of the others on the bus," Sherry Llewellyn, a police spokeswoman, said in an email. "The use of handcuffs is determined by the potential danger of the person to himself or someone else."

>Since 2010, all officers have been required to receive training titled "Autism Awareness for Law Enforcement" that the department developed in coordination with the Howard County Autism Society, Llewellyn said.

>After she drove to the scene, Santelices said, the aide began yelling at her about her son's behavior.

do people think you are a danger person?

Scientists Develop Technique to Erase Your Fears

>Fears are formed when we associate things with a strong, negative emotional response. Now, a team of scientists have developed a technique which lets them erase new emotional memories from the human brain—which could make it possible to wipe out your fears for good.

>When the brain learns something, a memory is created through a process called consolidation: at first the memory is unstable, but proteins form in the brain to fix it in place. By disrupting the way that process is carried out, it's possible to affect the content of a memory. This new study, published in Science by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, shows that it's possible to erase emotional memories by interrupting consolidation processes in the brain.

what do you fear?

Video Games May Enhance Social Skills for Autistic Youth

>Experts say the use of screen-based technologies can improve communication and social skills among youth diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

>Over the years, researchers have learned that children and adolescents with ASD are typically fascinated by screen-based technology. This in turn has suggested that video games, computers and mobile devices might be used for education and treatment.

>“Children and young adults with ASD have unique opportunities to capitalize on their interest and aptitude in video games as a resource to develop desired social behaviors and life skills and to increase their physical activity,” said Games for Health Journal Editor-in-Chief Bill Ferguson, Ph.D., who moderated the roundtable.

What are you playing right now?

Almost half of teens with autism bullied: study

>New York (Reuters Health) - Close to half of all teenagers with an autism spectrum disorder are bullied at school, says a survey of their parents.

>The results, published Monday in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, suggest that rate is much higher than the estimated 11 percent of bullied kids in the general population.

>Previous studies have found kids and teens who are bullied tend to be more depressed, lonely and anxious and do worse in school than those who aren't picked on, according to the researchers.

>Some of the most common factors of the victims of bullying included having attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), poor social skills and taking more general education classes, the team found.

>Parents also have to be aware that their child can be both a victim and a bully, Fornari said. "Often parents aren't aware of the negative behaviors their kids are involved with, because they can't imagine it," he said.

>1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men will be a victim of sexual assault in their lifetime.
>College age women are 4 times more likely to be sexually assaulted.
>In 2007, there were 248,300 victims of sexual assault.
>Every 2 minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted.
>60% of sexual assaults are not reported to the police.
>Reporting has increased by 1/3 since 1993.
>Approximately 73% of rape victims know their assailants.
>Only 6% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail.
Still supporting rape culture, /jp/?

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/6913589/

>アメリカでは年間に、3人がワニに食われて、30人がスカイダイビングで
>、40人がサソリに刺されて、143人が落雷で、1795人が救急車の事故で、376
1人
>が自〇行為でこの世を去っているって言われて、信じられるだろうか？
　で
>もこれ、事実なのだ。

3,761 Americans die from masterbution each year.

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/6913589/

>アメリカでは年間に、3人がワニに食われて、30人がスカイダイビングで
、40人がサソリに刺されて、143人が落雷で、1795人が救急車の事故で、3761人
が自〇行為でこの世を去っているって言われて、信じられるだろうか？　で
もこれ、事実なのだ。

3,761 Americans die from masterbution each year.

Scientists predict time will stop completely

>Time might feel like it is running away from us as the pace of life increases but according to scientists, the future will stop completely.

>Their proposal, published in the journal Physical Review D, claimed dark energy does not exist and that time was winding down to the point when it would finally grind to a halt long after the planet ceased to exist.

>The slowing down of time will eventually mean everything will appear to take place faster and faster until it eventually disappears.

>Professor Senovilla told the New Scientist: "Then everything will be frozen, like a snapshot of one instant, for ever."

There is no miracle *nipa*

Asian Americans most bullied in US schools

>Asian Americans endure far more bullying at US schools than members of other ethnic groups, with teenagers of the community three times as likely to face taunts on the Internet, new data shows.

>Policymakers see a range of reasons for the harassment, including language barriers faced by some Asian American students and a spike in racial abuse following the September 11, 2001 attacks against children perceived as Muslim.

>The research, to be released on Saturday, found that 54 percent of Asian American teenagers said they were bullied in the classroom, sharply above the 31.3 percent of whites who reported being picked on, 38.4 percent for African Americans and 34.3 percent for Hispanics.

>The disparity was even more striking for cyber-bullying.
>Some 62 percent of Asian Americans reported online harassment once or twice a month, compared with 18.1 percent of whites. The researcher said more study was needed on why the problem is so severe among Asian Americans.

merican, why do you guys bully me?