City in Aichi Prefecture to introduce smartphone ban for elementary and middle school children after 9pm to reduce bullying and other problems; netizen responses.

Nagareyama City encourages young couples to be proactive in love by registering their lover at city hall in order to increase the birthrate; netizens unconvinced.

Hamusoku netizens claim to have found the PhD of STAP cell scientist Obokata Haruko, which they say has a chapter taken entirely from a US website; netizens respond

Anti-nuclear protestors gather near the Diet Building in Tokyo to speak out against nuclear power in Japan on the third anniversary of Fukushima; netizens respond.

A man frustrated with his life is arrested after he stole a series of bikes, a crate of beer, and set off on a 1600km journey through Japan; netizens sympathetic.

A new TV ad for Georgia Coffee with popular actor Yamada Takayuki is criticised by actress Nakayama Chinatsu for implying that men make society; netizens disagree.

An 18 year old boy arrested on suspicion of the murder of schoolgirl Terasawa Hiromi posted a series of tweets after the crime expressing his shock; netizens angry.

Japanese netizens show a different side by praising pictures drawn by Chinese netizen of him and his "2D girlfriend" as "tasteful" and "moving"; responses from 2ch.