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kiknkorea
Joined: 16 May 2008
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 Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:21 pm Post subject: Tokyo bill to restrict extreme manga sparks protests |
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TOKYO: Japan's capital city was expected Wednesday to restrict the sale of manga comics and anime films with extreme depictions of rape, incest and other sex crimes, a proposal that has provoked cries of censorship.
The bill requires publishers and shops to sell only to readers over 18 material that depicts "virtual sex crimes" if it is "unjustifiably glorified and exaggerated".
A group of 10 major comic publishers has protested the bill and said it would boycott the biggest industry show, the Tokyo International Anime Fair, to be hosted next March by Tokyo's conservative Governor Shintaro Ishihara.
Manga comics are highly popular in Japan with both children and adults. The graphic novels deal with themes from high school romance to the literary classics -- but also with pornography, much of it hardcore and violent.
Ishihara has pushed for restrictions on the sale of "unhealthy" manga and anime within the city of more than 13 million people.
Japan has long been a major source of child pornography. Although producing and distributing it is illegal, possession is not criminalised, and images of "non-existent" underage characters in manga, anime and video games are legal.
Since the proposal to restrict strong sexual-content manga was first floated in Tokyo earlier this year, manga and anime artists have been up in arms over what they consider a limit on their creativity and free expression. |
Major disaster in Tokyo! (But couldn't they just hop over to another city and get it?)
Full article-
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1099105/1/.html |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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That's too bad. According to this, the available data implies that manga like this being readily available actually decreases the rate of sex crimes.
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| In sum, the concern that countries allowing pornography would show increased sex crime rates due to modeling or that adolescents in particular would be negatively vulnerable to and receptive to such models or the society would be otherwise adversely effected has not been vindicated. It is certainly clear from our data and analysis that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes and most so among youngsters as perpetrators or victims. We have mentioned some possible influential factors. |
I really don't see what Tokyo thinks it's going to achieve through these measures. This kind of purity crusade never made much sense to me. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
That's too bad. According to this, the available data implies that manga like this being readily available actually decreases the rate of sex crimes.
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Good to see someone actually reads my threads. Cf: Kiddy porn reduces sex abuse
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| Japan has long been a major source of child pornography. |
What? Maybe if you consider drawings, comics, and animations as child porn. |
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