19 Mar 10 | Index Index, minipost, Uncategorized
An amendment to youth welfare legislation set to go before the Tokyo Metropolitan General Assembly today could potentially ban all provocative visual depictions of “nonexistent minors”. The action is part of an attempt to crackdown on child pornography, but Japanese Manga artists and the online community have criticised lawmakers actions. They claim that such terms are open to interpretation, and would infringe on their freedom of expression.
20 Aug 09 | Index Index, minipost
A Japanese horror film entitled Grotesque has been refused an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification. BBFC director David Cooke said that he and other colleagues had made the decision as “the chief pleasure of the film seemed to be the spectacle of sadism for its own sake.” The last film that the BBFC turned down for an 18 certificate was 2004’s Murder Set Pieces. Read more here
14 Aug 09 | Index Index, minipost
A group of South Korean citizens have filed a lawsuit against a Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, for what they claimed to be a misreport. A total of 1,886 people Thursday filed a suit against the paper for a report in July last year for misquoting President Lee Myung-bak. In the suit, they asked the daily to pay 4.11 million won in compensation and print a correction. Read more here
08 Jun 09 | Index Index, minipost
One of Japan’s software rating organisations will no longer support the sale of simulated rape games such as “RapePlay” in the country, following protests from civil rights campaigners in the US. Read more here
