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The Tokyo District Court rules that the former operator of a now-defunct website allowing users free access to pirated manga must pay a total of around 1.7 billion yen ($11 million) in damages to three major Japanese publishers.
Since the last ice age, a butterfly species called the Reverdin’s blue (Plebejus argyrognomon, known as miyamashijimi in Japanese), has survived in Japan’s grasslands maintained by human agricultural activities. But as the country’s population ages and leaves the countryside, letting the seminatural grasslands change to forests, the butterfly is now endangered. For the past five […]
Three major Japanese publishers sued the former operator of the now-closed manga piracy website Mangamura on July 28, claiming it infringed on their rights by publishing popular manga online without their permission.