http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/news-j-pop-scandal-minami-minegishi-shaves-head.html

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A 20-YEAR-OLD singer from Japan sparked controversy over J-Pop sexual politics when she shaved her head for a YouTube video this weekend.

Minami Minegishi -- a star of the multi-million-selling J-Pop girl group AKB48 -- appeared teary in a video in which she apologised for breaking the group's 'bushido' code whereby members are sworn to celibacy.

AKB48 is, in fact, an 88-strong collective numbering girls as young as 13 in its ranks, 

The band's creator, Yasushi Akomoto, was quick to fend off accusations of hypocrisy. Because in spite of the fact his franchise grossed an estimated $212 million in 2011 alone, Akomoto, it turns out, is simply a social realist interested in reflecting the lives and moral dilemmas of Japan's horny young populace: "For example, there's a song called 'Despised Love'. This song is asking why junior high school kids kill themselves... unless I take up the issues these girls are facing as a songwriter the issues won't get addressed.

It's an endless source of fodder to fill magazines and now they have one that went all Britney,

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Pure Bruce Sterling - Zeitgeist and it's protagonist, Leggy Starlitz http://www.amazon.com/Zeitgeist-Bruce-Sterling/dp/0553576410 but with more Japanese craziness and classic Japanese "schoolgirl" teenage paedophilia. But then is it paedophilia if both the stars and the audience are under 16. While the management are taking advantage of them with everyone's consent.