A "cardboard box nikuman" shop has just opened in Akihabara. Since it's a play on the scandal earlier this year when a Chinese news report alleged that manufacturers in the country were filling nikuman with cardboard, the staff wear pink approximations of Chinese army uniforms. The shop, called Marilyn, doesn't provide that stuffing for its nikuman but serves them up in a cardboard box instead.

A "cardboard box nikuman" shop has just opened in Akihabara. Since it's a play on the scandal earlier this year when a Chinese news report alleged that manufacturers in the country were filling nikuman with cardboard,]

And of course, there is one small PR problem that the Cardboard Box Nikuman Shop has...There Were No Cardboard Nikuman In China (Japan Probe).

There's another photo of the Akiba shop at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h4ck/2093236656/in/pool-osanpo/

that scandal was months ago.

i would have thought it would have been seized upon that very week in july or august...

http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/kanto/20071215page_id=3457

only 24 hours afterwards does this get picked up elsewhere, in English-language media.

Who needs news when there is fucked gaijin?