“Japan Forces Poor Countries to Translate Hentai Child Porn”
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: May 18, 2009 19:46 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Law, Mass Media, Philippines, Politics
The Philippines has launched into a hysterical drive to demonise Japanese erotica, with their legislature proclaiming that “hentai is child pornography”, but now there are even claims that Japan is forcing poor countries to service their international child pornography empire, with the Philippines supposedly the number one victim of this monstrous exploitation.
A ludicrous example of this supposed practice is proffered in the form of a lady who is “forced to translate hentai loli manga to support her family”:
The anonymous lady, in her twenties and a resident of Manila, laments that she is forced to support her two daughters by translating depraved Japanese ero-manga featuring school children, for which she receives an income of some $300 monthly (which is in fact the same level as a Filipino civil servant and an enviable salary for the country, so we must wonder at her desperation).
“When I first saw these horrible manga, I was so shocked I didn’t know what to make of them.” She seems to have got the better of these emotions and went to work translating them all the same. Her poor daughters even saw her work on her computer once, after which she told them never to go near the PC, lest they be poisoned by the insidious Japanese hentai contagion.
She apparently cannot actually speak Japanese, but “uses an online dictionary” to produce something approximating a translation.
Supposedly the office she works at employs ten people to translate ero-anime and manga for consumption in countries the world over, operating 24 hours a day as a loli-translation mill of sorts. No specific titles are mentioned.
The lady explains that the operation is probably situated in the Philippines because of low labour costs and a lack of regulation. Presumably she will be happy to be looking for a new highy paid job soon…
The account itself originates from Japan’s foremost gutter rag Mainichi, apparently still intent on doing its part to sully Japan’s good name after being forced to drop its English language hentai news site by disgusted domestic readers.
Since loli ero-manga is hardly ever translated commercially into English, we have to wonder whether their story is anything but fabricated propaganda, although the Filipino hysteria is genuine enough… If true though, it would certainly shed some light on the quality of translations in use for English language manga.
This is not all, according to a legislator: “There are even cases where poverty forces parents to make their children model just to make enough to survive.”
It should be noted that in spite of the recent flurry of law-making on the subject, the Philippines remains a nation on the lolicon sex tourist’s travel itinerary…
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wow.
1: Translating Japanese, a language which she does not understand that contains a hell lot of Kanji characters, into English, which, if she is fluent at, should at least signify that she is worthy enough to have a basic office job. She should be fluent with at least English, knowing that her job is translating something into English. Note also that she translates into Japanese, which means a very very very different grammar structure which takes hellworth to understand properly if your used to a language like English (Jap is like reverse English lolz.)
2: Translating kanji in flat image files? fail. It's hell hard to even use that Microsoft IME.
3: If she has kids, that means she probably means she marrried. So what's the man of the house doing?
4: I'm 16, and I do web designs which earns me PhP20-70k (425$-1500$) per project that lasts 1-3 weeks. She can also work for someone else (provided she has some natural skill at something. If she can translate Unknown Jap to English, then she must be logically competitive to understand what she is translating.) Which means that she has the basic capabilities to have a "proper" job. Hell, most of our best employees here aren't even graduates in the field they are working on, provided they have the natural talent and interest. They earn at least 17-20k (more than 300$) a month. One of our gfx designers here isnt even a graduate of any arts-related course and he's one of our best and has been buying all these gadgets and stuff recently.
*bow*
from a loving Otaku Filipino here.
off-topic:
0_0 You earn that big with web designing? I barely earn anything at all and quite unlucky with getting a job T_T
The fuck?
mm.. i would love to have that job. :3
considering the fact that I'm an eroge fan and that i'll be earning 300 bucks for doing that?
i lol'd. XD do want!..
agree -_-
Wait a minute, she isnt an official translator,otherwise she would, I dunno, know Japanese. She's part of a bootlegging ring. Of course she would make the same amount of money as civil servants. Bootleggers dont pay income tax!
This is the Philipine pot calling the Indonesian kettle black.
She choose to do this job, not forced...
and why would someone paid to translate the stuff? There are tons in sankakucomplex who gladly translate it for free :P
and that sir has been the morale of most free-subbing communities out there seriously this is a PROPAGANDA
Almost as bad as retard feminists.
"highy"
shouldn't it be "highly"?
I'm from the Philippines, where can I get a job like that?!?!
LOL, right...
And even if this isn't absolute bullshit (as far as I know, translations for loli mangas are only made by fansubbers), I suppose they are trying to say this is different than sweatshops or any other jobs in which random rich country "forces" random poor country to do their work?
Of course, if any translation work is really made in the phillipines, they probably consider "hentai child porn" just about ANY manga that exists out there.
For instance, Love Hina would probably be considered hentai child porn there... since you know, it has some absolutely pornographic and erotic panties scenes, which are completely obscene, much the opposite of the countrie's poverty...
Finally, yes, we are all to trust some anonymous lady, that tells about an anonymous company, that makes translations of anonymous manga, with anonymous titles. An anonymous tale told by the Internets!
Also, we are all to blame loli hentai, and NOT the parents of the kids that forces them to deal with material they are not supposed to deal with, with child labor exploitation.
One has to laugh on the false moralists propaganda, how far they'll try to go to force their beliefs and prejudice on others.
it'll be no wonder if we find out later on that this stupid rumor was spread by some moronic feminist organization, or UNICEF, or something like that.
Forced to translate?
What a load of bull. If I was some evil empire I'd force her to whore herself out
Forcing someone to translate manga is just so comical...
So true...
"for which she receives an income of some $300 monthly (which is in fact the same level as a Filipino civil servant and an enviable salary for the country, so we must wonder at her desperation)."
Actually no, this is not enviable. The enviable salary would be around 400 - 600 and you can get that by working at a call center. LOL.
Oh my god it's a conspiracy against porn. Freemasons, the Illuminati, and chemtrails must somehow be involved.
DEATH TO THE NWO!
NWO actually encourages porn, idiot.
> Since loli ero-manga is hardly ever translated commercially into English, we have to wonder whether their story is anything but fabricated propaganda
And as we all know, english is the only language other than moonspeak currently in use throughout the world.... :facepalm:
Hey Guys!! To those who live in the philippines, like me, take note that the local Filipinos there are whores to their American counterparts! If you think about it logically, this is all a systematic takeover propaganda from a particular hypocritical feminist fascist group who is spreading their cancer to their loyal allies. They intend that other nations shun Japan.
I say: HELL FOR THE HYPOCRITES, DEATH FOR THE FASCISTS, RAEP FOR THE FEMINISTS!!!
I'd like that job...
Here's a helpful rule: don't have kids if you can't pay for 'em.
That's a horrible rule.
Goverment need to support the most importang thing in the world.The creation of families,without children and family there would't be any of the good things and we working for them.
They should stop being so capitalistic and help support families or one day the whole system will break down.
Dude... Face it. Most guys are idiots who give in to lust. Some are idiots who produce families only to end up in the streets. You mean to tell me it's good to have a family without a thought about their future? Well then I find your statement retarded and stupid.
eh well goverment doesn't give eonugh support so don't need children if you can't afford them.
Amen!
i call shenanigans on this article.
i believe this the filipino politicians realized their own stupidity when they banned hentai because they thought, hentai=loli porn. so now they're still trying to taint the good name of hentai by doing shitty things like making up this article.
first of all, the lady was "forced to tranlate it"? i dont think so, because $300 is hardly enviable, in fact quite a pathetic salary considering it is a job involving translating a foreign language. i'm guessing the forced part was doing it for so little money, not because she didnt want to do it because of morals or something.
second, she's got a pc and enough brains to use an online dictionary, which i also think is bullshit because i dont think it would be possible to be able to translate hentai manga for a job with only an online dictionary. so, if she's indeed smart enough to be able to accurately translate hentai manga. then she could most probably be able to find a better and higher paying job than what she's doing.
i cant decide what to say so ill just assign them by numbers..
1.the bitch is a liar!
2.femanzis paid her.
3.this hentai loli problem will be dissolved in no time.
4.300$ and she's still complaining??thats more than enough for me and my family to survive for 3 months!!
5.if her "JOB" is destroying her family and she has no choice but to do "H-TRANSLATIONS" and earn 300$ to support them.....oh gawd i just cant see anyone complaining about this here where i live..sorry but this is just restarted!
edit:
retarted!
I am afraid for her daughters. When she told them not to go near the PC (and look at loli manga), I'm sure they will do the opposite. That's what children (and even adults) do. I'm sure right now her daughters are trying to mimick what the mangas portray. That's why the mother is spilling the beans so that Japan would be blamed. It's like a child caught smoking by his parents. Blame it on the greedy tobacco companies with their slick advertisements.
I find it amusing that they lament the horrors that their people are forced into due to poverty, while making no attempt to solve the problem. They instead choose to demonize a solution instead of trying to end the underlying problem- poverty.
Oops.
"Quick! Throw a smokescreen so the world doesn't focus on how poor our people are."
"Yes Sir! How about demonizing foreigners again?"
"Perfect!"
lame
I expected this to be on april fools day or something, but what else do you expect from a country where britian sent their corrupt politicans
Pinoy here, and if it's Gabriela again, or any other "feminist-wannabe"/"religious"/UNICEF/concervative groups "trying" to reword the "truth", well I see no reason how they can even try to FORCE their way on the masses. Reminds me of the "Hentai = CP" analogy, which even grade schoolers would know is NOT the same (as there are no REAL victims, but that's and always will be another UNIFail useless argument). Besides, 2010's 1 year countdown already started AND as many have said before me, POGI POINTS and Detract-Your-Opponents tactics is just normal at these times, but that's another story.
$300 a month is pretty good here, made even better when you work-at-home. Although callcenter outsourcing pays MORE here, GOOGLE-powers getting $300 is pretty good, made better by the fapmaterial. And, if she was allegedly "forced" to do ANY job, why FAG-briella? All they care about is FEMDOM, Yaoi, "women > men" rights, "influence", and SHOTACON. If they wanted justice, IMBESTIGADOR and XXX do better jobs of bringing justice.
Besides. this is the Philippines we're talking about. Traffic, jeepneys, KOTONG-PULIS, TONGPATS, and many more to count... They "plan-to-enforce" the ANTI-HENTAI-because-UNIFAG-told-us-and-because-HENTAI=CP bill AND YET they (STILL) can't enforce traffic (JUST LIKE ALWAYS). As always, CP in real life is WRONG for many reasons one can only imagine. Hentai, like EVERY form, is PROTECTED by FREEDOM OF SPEECH, so if they ban hentai, what's to stop them from taking away, let's see... "excessively violent, revealing, and not-in-the-interests of the RELIGIOUS/conservative" games/movies/music or even the TRUTH for that matter?
To the pinoys here, cnu jan malapit sa glorietta? I've always wondered which SanCon poster might be around the next corner...
not me, I'm around SM City North and WalMart North Edsa.
so who's near me? xD I'm a freshie at DLSU too xD
DLSU student here.
Second year DLSU XD
wait, hentai is child pornography now?
HOW THE HELL AM I GONNA FAP TO UNDERAGE GIRLS NOW?!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
btw i live in the philippines
*adds philipines to vacation possibilities*
...the fuck is this
Blame stupid impractical religious beliefs.
lol at te lies in this story
Yeah... Our country is quite sad... If people here see any thing animated it's already considered "Childish" to them...
That's true, and the Philippine's isn't innocent either. I'm Filipino and hate the fact that there are plenty of girls under the age of 18 working as webcam girls.
I live in the Philippines too and all I can say is that woman has some nerve complaining about that easy ass job she has.
$300 is quite alot by our standards. Even more when all she has to do is translate ero-manga with online dictionaries. She didn't even go to some jap school to learn the language for fuck's sake! She's lucky such a job was offered to her. Talk about ingrates in this country.. GOD!!!!
Forced? Yeah maybe! Coz jobs here are so friggin' hard to get. If she hates it so much then she should quit and just pass it to me. I'd more than happy to accept it. Let's see if this woman can hold on to her idealisms or moral grounds when she sees her two children starving to death. Yeah.. maybe then translating all those "poisonous" ero-manga's wasn't so bad after all...
If I'm not wrong, its customary in the Philipines for the bride to be a non-virgin before getting married. Read it somewhere. Apparently there are people paid to take their virginities.
Failipines nuff said
This is fairly comical since the Japanese are a bit xenophobic of all foreigners. Any non-Japanese native is permitted to visit for more than 90 days and has to even go through fingerprinting at their foreign embassies.
Anything that the Philipines says to Japan will likely fall on deaf ears. This, considering they have hidden the atrocities they have committed during World War II against neighbouring countries and removed them from all of their history textbooks...
Google up info on 731 and find out for yourself...
I can do you one better.
Nanking was nothing compared to what they did to the Philippines during WW2.
I guess every country affected by the Japanese's tyranny back WWII is finding ways to retaliate. Though these methods seems stupid. Attacking Japan's manga/anime industry by blocking distribution into their own countries? Wow, how creative -_-
The best way is simply becoming better than Japan. Not impossible even for the Philippines..problem is..there's only a handful who would even dare to do such thing because unlike Japan a lot of Pilipinos don't care for their country
10/10
THIS.
damn we love our lolis dont we
lots of posts
anyway where are these loli mangas going
they aint coming to the US
Seriously wtf!?
Why the Philippines of all the places?
There might be other countries doing this also..It Just so happens that the article's story is located in the Philippines
Stupid Pinoys! They been bitches for the Spaniards and the Japanese! They are weak!!!
Because they think...
Foreigners = rich
Foreigners = gods that deserve hospitality from the locals
Though this type of mentality isn't just limited to the Philippines...though sadly we're a best example of such
ummm...scanlations everyone?
For the denizens if the internet... I want to give my deepest apologies... I hate my country. *sigh*
That's a misleading title, SankakuComplex. No where on that Mainichi article did anyone say "Japan forced poor countries". It's just a non-govt-related company set up in the Philippines that translate eroge manga, and some woman translated it out of poverty.
Well, for a gutter rag site like SankakuComplex, I shouldn't expect more.
Just the kind of worthless calumny I would expect from an anon.
It implied such. Read what the legislator was saying, he was clearly implying Japan forced these sort of thing on to them.
“There are even cases where poverty forces parents to make their children model just to make enough to survive.”
- That line is a fact not only limited to the Philippines and...
"It should be noted that in spite of the recent flurry of law-making on the subject, the Philippines remains a nation on the lolicon sex tourist’s travel itinerary."
- ...more hurtful facts about the Philippines coming from foreigners..It would be worst if it came from a local Pilipino.
"She apparently cannot actually speak Japanese, but “uses an online dictionary” to produce something approximating a translation."
^^That probably explains a whole lot about the current dubbing quality. Filipinos tend to do what most Filipinos are also practicing, whether right or wrong...
Actually a Filipino told me this too.
This is awesome news :D
Instead of forcing poor countries to produce useless things such as clothing, and shoes, they're now producing Hentai :D
Nobody's forcing her to translate hentai child porn. Hell, you can probably get a better translation off the internet.
If she is really that desperate for money, she might as well whore herself out. She's in her 20's, people may still be interested.
If she doesn't want to do that, find a proper job; nobody's telling her to do this.
... think I might have sounded a bit too harsh... been too cranky lately.
she could have found a proper job if it was easily available...
I guess that's true... but then she did choose this job herself.
and it's not. . .
Awesome. I guess we could now toss in "child porn translators" into the same heap as domestic helpers, nurses, and call center agents. Maybe I reconsider my career options?
Hilarious!
wtf she being paid to translate shit using babel fish. Fuck I want that job.
me to... $300 per month... its ok for me...
which company is that...
omg Japan has some serious issue when it comes to sexual exploitation- tv, comics, radio, etc etc.
As I learn more and more about Japan, i am more disgusted with their "ideas".
“When I first saw these horrible manga..”
"Her poor daughters..."
"..she told them never to go near the PC"
"..they be poisoned by the insidious Japanese hentai contagion."
I hate and at the same time LOLed on how hysterical dramatic they made it sound like. It's as if she's forced by a Hi-tech military to work on a gruesome biological weapon which may any time unexpectedly wake up from its incubator, slaying thousands of lives, including her, etc..... and she doesn't want her innocent children to see and traumatized with those scenes.
This post isn't supposed to be here actually..
Stop looking only on the bad side, idiot... and stop getting brainwashed by this one-sided propoganda.
Just how exactly has this anything to do with sexual exploitation?
then dont go to this site. go read a bible insted
Haha nice pwn. There really is no sexual exploitation. Hentai is not child pornography because it's animated.
I could see that the Philippine porn industry paid this bitch to lie so that people support their crappy porn which lose out to 2D lolis..
I suspect either Mainichi or their Filipino contacts are up to something with this...
i agree... i think those sex scandal vids are much more fun to watch than those low quality porn they make. and majority of people who watch real porn are usually middle-aged men and older.
well when it comes to 2D porn, those who have access are usually those kids hitting puberty secretly keeping pirated ero-anime cd/dvd, older teens, young adults, and 2D fan adults who buy them or know their way around the net.
yeah that is right... dont shut down the H-translation business. instead kill quiapo
if they can that is.
Hah, good luck with that.
Especially since certain politicians have their fingers in that pot.
fuck that even i took months to decode loli manga ussing the net..... this is just one big lie ... you even need 6monts of study to recognise certain kanji.... just lies
$300 a month for translating manga without any knowledge of moonspeak? that's much yo.
compare this to a friend of mine who speaks perfect japanese and yet only receives $80 monthly salary for translating yaoi...
well it's yaoi... she's doing loli!!!
THIS!
that's sad. . .
the phillipinos I have met are all catholics, similar to what you might see in south/central america. (I'm talking giant religious statues on the hillside and seeing jesus in pancakes...) That certainly plays into the hysteria somewhat. Couple that with what must be some serious sort of poverty level. and you have a recipe for people doing all sorts of things they don't want to, to earn a living and feeling imense guilt for it.
btw it's Filipinos
Bawwww more. At least you're making money. Don't like it? Go find another line of work. I seriously doubt anyone is forcing her to do anything, especially if she can't understand the language and just uses online dictionaries. That just screams bullshit to me.
But if it's true, I fear for our quality.
I bet she just wants attention because others are whining about hentai. Bleh.
Or she just got greedy.
They're catholic, what can you expect? Only priests and their shota are acceptable to them
at first i thought it was a troll...
The only reason the government is complaining about hentai is because election season is coming up and they want supporters. Once that's over everything will soon die down and will be forgotten until the next election.
ah... the wonders of religions and social conservatism... this shit would not be a problem if people would just realize that this shit is not wrong in the first place... its a win-win situation people have their fetishes fulfilled, and the artists make money without getting anyone hurt in the process, theres WAY too much other shit going on thanks to the ridiculous conservative views on social issues... oh how ridiculous hardcore catholic people are... they deprave people to cause their desires to overwhelm them...
if loli is wrong... then a ton of other things should be wrong by that logic... guro is wrong... people get killed/hurt. S&M and bondage is wrong... its having slaves and harming people. rape is wrong... well... kus its rape...
its just bullcrap that social conservatives can think such things... they seek to deprave and censor the world to drive it mad...
Are you saying there's nothing wrong with actual rape? If you're referring to rape in art, then your post is pretty poorly worded to express that.
perhaps if your a born stalker then that might be the case... kinda like how sex is an art form
Karma sutra anyoune
agreed