Sometimes studying can be a very tedious process if your teacher or the subject is boring. Then again, if we have these awesome AKB48 study reference books back in my school days, I’d probably would have gotten much better grades ^^

There are study references for both elementary school and high school though all of them are written in Japanese. I’m quite tempted to get a copy of the study reference for Japanese, then again I might get distracted halfway just looking at the photos in the book (if there are any).

Elementary School (Mathematics and Japanese)

High School (English, Mathematics, Science, Society, and Japanese)

According to the police, this man would approach elementary school girls on the street and ask them to provide him with saliva samples for his “research”. He would then get girls that agreed to spit into tiny white cups. The man had confessed that he was using the spit for his own sexual gratification. What’s even more shocking is that he had been doing this for 17 years and had collected spit from 500 little girls!!!

Police are charging this creep with a section under the Tokyo’s Nuisance Prevention Ordinance that bans vulgar speech or actions in public that cause unease and anxiety to other people. If the case goes to trial and he is convicted, he could face up to 1 year in prison and a fine of up to 1,000,000 yen.

Source: JapanProbe

Even though what he did seemed quite harmless, I still say lock him up and throw away the key!! While I write this story, I feel quite disgusted to imagine what he would be doing with those spit he collected.

Image Source: Mainichi Photo Journal

A police officer guides a group of first-year and second-year pupils at Yamada-minami Elementary School on May 23 as part of a traffic safety drill in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, a town battered by the tsunami following the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. Police have advised the children to walk to their school carefully because broken glass and fragments of corrugated iron roofs are still scattered all around the area. (Mainichi)

Image Credit: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoo

I’m not entirely sure that it is supposed to protect them from, but I’m guessing radiation? But to me they look like a bunch of tiny travelling pilgrims.

Despite the book being highly sought after by fans, it wasn’t available for sale. But now authorities have decided to release a pocket-sized version of the book. The book is scheduled to be released on 30 Jun and will be retailing for 1,050 yen. All of the money made from sales will be given to charity to help those effected by the Tohoku disaster.

Source: Tokyohive

Apart from Arashi, the authorities should get AKB48 to be featured in their next publication. Someone start a petition! XD

However, for Today’s Japan Photo, we take a look at a more joyous sight where a bunch of first graders receiving their yellow school caps during a joint celebration event for new students at four local elementary schools held at the civic hall in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture.

Image Credit: Mainichi Photo Journal

According to coworkers, the teacher—identified as Satoshi Nagahama, 29—regularly came into work early. It is alleged that on Sept 10, he arrived before his coworkers, entered a fourth floor girls’ toilet and affixed a miniature camera to a pipe using tape. Schoolgirls noticed the camera and reported it to the school, who in turn informed police.

Wondering how police managed to catch this creepy pedophile? When they were checking the camera for evidence, they found photos of the accused stored in it! LOL

Source: JapanToday

The conclusion of this news story is that if you are planning to do something evil with your camera, buy a new CF Card to store the images. LOLOL

The 45-year-old male teacher of a local public school admitted to the instance when school authorities asked him about it after the education board was tipped off by a person believed to be a parent of one of his students, according to the board.

During a math class in July, the teacher verbally asked his class, ‘‘How many days does it take to kill all 18 kids when killing three a day?’’ He reportedly told the school authorities that the words just slipped out of his mouth.

He said he would never do it again, but the school also found during the hearing that he previously slapped a female student, though she was not injured.

A board official, Kyoko Ota, said the incident is intolerable and authorities would closely watch the teacher to ensure that he acts appropriately.

He received the reprimand from the board on July 16, but the board did not make the incident public for about two months because ‘‘the teacher’s behavior was not continuous and the students did not receive serious damage from it,’’ Ota said.

Source: JapanToday

I’m sure parents are thankful that he was just teaching Maths and not the Science lab section. ^^”

Today the mayor has announced that the elementary school name will be changed after he began concerned about the security of the school and the safety of the elementary school kids. A new school name will be decided in due time.

Source: MSN Sankei via Gigazine

Before he officially announces the newly decided name for the school, I do hope he will remember to run it through Google first ^^

Of course the bad decision has now been spreading all over the news and concerned parents are asking authorities to change the name of the elementary school. However, the mayor has announced that he will not be changing the name anytime soon, and he was quoted saying:

「校名を変えれば、かえってアダルトの世界を正当化することになる」

Changing the school name would mean justifying the existence of eroge.

Source: Yomiuri JP via Gigazine

Image Source: KSNMK’s flickr

Soon all the crazy pedobears will be flocking to the school and then when something happens to the poor elementary school kids, the mayor would have losta explaining to do, especially to the parents for his decision not to change the school’s name.