Japan has just criminalised the possession of child pornography, though this time around lawmakers declined to destroy the anime and manga industry by banning their works as well, instead settling only for material featuring real people.
The newly passed law attaches a jail term of not more than 1 year and a fine not exceeding 1 million yen to the newly criminalised offence of the “simple possession” of “indecent images” of minors under the age of 18
Citing fears about something called “freedom of expression,” the new law excludes drawn, animated or computer generated imagery from its scope (although in practice police can apparently arrest anyone involved in creating “indecent” 2D adult material whenever they feel like it anyway).
Once the law comes into effect, a year-long grace period of non-enforcement to allow rorikon to dispose of the offending elements of their collections is expected.
Japan’s fairly rigorously enforced and significantly stricter laws against the production and distribution of child pornography remain unchanged.
Aside from the obvious fears about what Japan’s police could get up to with yet another law to selectively enforce to their own ends, most opposition to the law focused on the potential devastation it could wreak on the nation’s anime, manga and game industries.
The obvious desire of the law’s more enthusiastic promoters to get all suspect 2D material banned under the rubric of being “virtual child abuse” or worse and the demand for “research” into the necessity of its censorship which found its way into the actual draft of the law seem to have been struck down as part of the horse-trading necessary to get the bill passed.
Endless moaning about the 2D exemption from the friendly champions of liberty in the land of the free seems likely to continue until the next US government debacle demands fresh distractions – although given how long it took even their LDP pawns to get round to banning simple possession there does not seem to be much danger of further immediate action, least of all with Abe desperate to keep his creative industries onside to participate in the “Cool Japan” program.
The question of where Japan’s various levels of idols – most of whom are at some point involved in various levels of gravure photography even as minors, be they “junior,” “national” or otherwise – stand with respect to the law has also yet to be addressed, though the complete official silence about the matter presumably means the law is far more likely to be used for prosecuting parents whose family albums contain under-age nudity than idols whose provocative posing crosses some imaginary line.
I’m actually surprised that the “deciders” were able to differentiate between fiction and reality.
Seriously.
That is so rare for them.
Well its only a matter of time till they revisit this so wish it was repealed lol sort of
Lets tackle the video cnn posted and the article:
Welfare advocates say the material is being used to groom children:
Well you can do this with anykind of porn so why is suddenly lolicon and shotacon not okay but other adult porn is,adult porn has the same effect they can groom exactly the same with adult porn,those are only the hurt feelings again that want to get rid of lolicon and shotacon and still they are pulling that thing out of their ass is it used in masses then i will worry because you don’t really hear that this material was used for grooming much on the internet,actually haven’t read any news about it.
So yeah video what is the deal with it i mean you have this guy who stabbed a girl several times and had lots of cp.What i say about this is fail he stabbed her not raped her cp can make you r♥♥e but depends on the person and they are connecting it to cp also the guy is a sociopath or how you call them.And the foolish censoring stuff that even doesn’t need to be censored on there they only make it look worse with censoring the manga for their news article how about they show it normal and then let the people decide if how it looks.
Remember it needs to be several people not a couple of maniacs who do something wrong and then blame it on the fictional material for escape their guilt to make us worried about lolicon and shotacon causing r♥♥e.
Also i have this news:
Cartoons and drawings depicting paedophilia do not encourage people to commit child sex offences in real life, a report by experts who treat sexual problems concludes.
http://cphpost.dk/news/report-cartoon-paedophilia-harmless.2255.html
Oh yeah one thing people keep forgeting all japan porn is still censored so what is the ruckus about it anyway?
Also:
“She told CNN she once worked on a case where a predator used a cartoon to convince a child that sex abuse was normal. “So the pedophiles might bring the animation and say ‘this is how you practice with adults,'” she said.
She only said once see and even then there are no source news to her statement huh.
We Americans are turning Japan into a Fascist country. Shame on us.
Just about every nation amerikkka has it’s filthy paws on dies/becomes destabilized(nice way of putting it). Fucking world policing scumbags.
As long as 2D is ok, I don’t care about anything else… artists, unleash your pencils!!