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Investigators have kept very mum about the Belgian 'manga murder' incident for the past two months; there have been no more press releases since a few days after the discovery of several body parts in a Brussels park, accompanied by two notes in romaji reading "Watashi wa Kira dess".

I was rather astonished when people reacted to the so-called 'manga murder' incident by turning the infamous 'Watashi wa Kira dess' (the misspelled note left with the body parts) into a kind of meme.

ANN reports that the Japanese foreign ministry (MOFA) has launched a website which uses the famous manga character Tetsuwan Atomu (also known as Astro Boy) to inform Japanese tourists heading abroad about the dangers they might encounter there. It seems to be mostly a portal site, with short descriptions of content next to pictures of Atomu and links to more detailed texts and videos on the MOFA site proper.