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NEWS: Japan Cartoonists Association, Others Oppose New Child Pornography Revision Bill

Judging from what I've read in that article, it seems that virtually ALL visual mediums within Japan are just one bill away from being criminalized. The future of the anime/manga/gaming industry is really getting bleaker by the day.

Well as I said, good bye anime and manga, you were awesome one time. Crying or Very sad

Looks like this is it, and I guess South Korea can replace my Asian pop culture fix (K-pop, K-drama).

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[1] Juvenile Sexual Media(child pornography) is that the people, who are children and teens or able to recognize as underage, or matters appear in media which contact anything on article [2].

And describe the other sexual activities in forms of films, videos, games, computers and visual communication medias.
[ . . . ]
And it refers to action on the underage or to the underage to break the law following articles.

a. Sexual intercourse.
b. Analogous sexual intercourse which use the parts of the body such as oral or anal and utilise the tools.
c. The action that can cause sexual humiliation or disgust to ordinary people by naked, contacting or exposing the parts of the body.
d. Masturbation.

The boundary of the Act of Juvenile Sex Protection : There are not any animation's violate precedent until now. Obscene or not can only decided by judge. So that, any kind of animations which contain pornographic or obscene contents whether or not, you should follow the law.

For pertinent example : While students present, to expose and demonstrate sexual intercourse. (contain factors which can cause sexual desires)


Recapitulation : There is not any clear norms in the Act of Juvenile Sex Protection. Indeed, police officers regard 'Mirai Nikki' as pornographic.
(the police's enforcement and Judge's law are seperated. First, in case of police, if they have any doubt or not, they arrest, after that, it is all up to judge)

2013.04 - 2013.11 is crackdown period.

On the Protection of Children and Youth Act
[Trial 16.09.2012] [law No. 11048, 15.09.2011, amended tabeop] View terror laws
Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (Child and Youth Care Unit St.) 02-2075-8783

Across the Sea of Japan, the Japanese music industry is struggling to keep its head above the water. The 2010 figures from The Recording Industry Association of Japan indicate declines of 6% (volume) and 5% (value) in Japan’s digital music market compared with the same figures from 2009. Internet downloads also experienced a 1% decline, falling to 10.1 billion yen in total revenue. Total market size fell by 8.3% in 2010. Though it remains the second largest market for music in the world, Japanese pop could certainly use some of the vigor and enthusiasm so closely associated with the meteoric rise of its Korean counterpart.

The fact of the matter is this: With Japan’s population in chronic decline, the size of its domestic market is bound to shrink – a fact acknowledged and recognized by the RIAJ itself. Groups like AKB48 may work domestically, but their appeal is limited by cultural factors—13-year-old girls jumping around in miniskirts may not necessarily fly with consumers outside of Japan. Catering to broader audiences both domestically and internationally will be key to the revival of the Japanese music industry.

Products, however, do not market themselves. Unlike their Korean pop equivalents, most Japanese labels are allergic to promoting their artists’ work abroad. Some, like Johnny’s Entertainment, have even gone so far as to actively delete every promotional video of new and old releases from YouTube. How can Japanese artists pick up new fans if promotional videos are only available to people who already know about the artist in question?

That said, Japan's industry was doing around US$5B in sales at it's peak, sales have already dropped 50% in the last 15 years, and with the population now declining they're only going to drop faster unless Japan can start exporting it's music.

Getting reports about this thread straying off course a bit from Japan to Korea. Please don't force me to delete/edit stuff. Stay on topic. Thanks.

tcsavato wrote:

Mohawk52 wrote: Well in a democracy if people don't like their government they simply vote them out and vote in the one's who will go into this bill/law, should it get passed, and amend, or repeal it out of the statutes. Simples Not really. People as a whole are retarded. They will believe whatever lies the government spews as long as it sounds good.........Hell, look at everyone currently in politics. Very few are actually good people. Corruption drives politics and people buy into that corruption, that's why the same damn people get elected every time despite the fact that everyone paying attention hates them.

The people get the government they deserve one way or another.

(hence why police states fall so quickly - most of the populace already hates them, they just need that spark to make them stand up for themselves)

mdreura, no government can last long without the acquiescence of the majority of the population. It doesn't matter one bit what the ruling class wants if most people won't accept it(hence the numerous regrets among the elites about peace breaking out before "war socialism" could be made permanent - they had to wait until the Panic of 1929 before they could resume strangling the American economy in force). Saying that the people get the government the majority deserve isn't "the height of ignorance and callousness" - it's simple fact.

If that's the case, why do international institutions like the UN and the Hague even exist? Why do world wars happen? By your logic, genocide and war crimes are the sovereign will of the people.

If we're talking simple facts, we have to start by recognizing the simple fact that laws are written by government officials, not the governed themselves. The acquiescence of the population is irrelevant if the one actually writing the law is looking elsewhere for direction.

The argument you're making is a leap of faith which maybe true when leaders and benevolent, but falls apart when corruption enters the equation, and it really is the height of ignorance to blame the governed populace for government corruption.

The future of the anime/manga/gaming industry is really getting bleaker by the day.

Mr. Oshawott wrote:

The future of the anime/manga/gaming industry is really getting bleaker by the day.

I think people are forgetting, again, that this is about child (real or imagined) pornography. We already have very strict laws in the UK and US, yet plenty of anime and manga is legally released uncensored.
If you don't indulge in hentai, the seedier side of doujin and fringe publications like Comic LO you probably wouldn't notice any change - after all there was the same uproar over the harmful publications act, but I've not noticed any change in what has been produced since and while Aki Sora (which I've never read) has ceased printing if Yosuga no Sora of all things made it through unscathed..