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NEWS: Japan Animation Creators Assoc. Adds Opposition to New Child Porn Revision Bill

It makes me grateful that in the U.S.,we have something like a First Amendment that helps protect free expression. It's a shame Japan has nothing like it in their constitution.

It makes me grateful that in the U.S.,we have something like a First Amendment that helps protect free expression. It's a shame Japan has nothing like it in their constitution.

In 2005, the U.S. Department of Justice formed the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in a push to prosecute obscenity cases. Red Rose Stories, a site dedicated to text-only fantasy stories, became one of many sites targeted by the FBI for shutdown. The government alleged that Red Rose Stories contained depictions of child rape. The publisher pled guilty.

Personally I support if the bill strictly goes after sick, evil, and disgusting tentacle child-rape hentai, and don't see how that would affect anything like, say One Piece?.

antvasima wrote:

Personally I support if the bill strictly goes after sick, evil, and disgusting tentacle child-rape hentai, and don't see how that would affect anything like, say One Piece?.

Why is that? Because it's a depiction of a child like character? Fact of the matter is that that "child" doesn't exist, there is no victim and nobody being abused. Outside of the fact that you personally don't like it, there is zero logical reason to ban such content. Doujin Markets exist, and such a ban would effect them and effect that part of the industry heavily.

I find rape to be one of the most reprehensible crimes and dislike most depictions of it in fiction. (With Good story telling, it can be used to create a crisis or make one feel for certain characters) No matter my distaste of rape, I will not lobby for it's ban from fiction. I just avoid media with the content. Somebody out there likes it, and as long as nobody is harmed in its creation, they should have free reign to create what they want.

Given the massive problems with paedophile networks in Japan

Also, should you really waste your time fighting for the rights of people who think like Nambla members?

I respectfully disagree with your opinion, and at the end that is all that it is. One opinion or another.

There is a massive difference between an offpage reference to child rape as a vile crime to be punished and for deeply gratuitious purposes.

Given the massive problems with paedophile networks in Japan I think that the child rape hentai is grooming the users into the real alternative, and I couldn't be less concerned that the doujin industry would have to adapt through consentual sex depictions, which would probably sell just as well.

Mind you, the real deal should obviously hold far harsher punishments, but I wouldn't mind if the actual spreading and production of any form of gratuitious child rape would be imposed with a fine, but mere possession is much iffier.

This viewpoint is not likely to change, no matter whether you are more tolerant towards the practice, just as I'm sure that the reverse holds equally true. My problem is the assumption that your viewpoint should somehow automatically hold greater validity. Also, should you really waste your time fighting for the rights of people who think like Nambla members?

What could happen because of this bill if it were passed,could cause a lot of manga artists and others to leave Japan to work elsewhere. They could even end up in the United States. That's what happened in Germany in the 1930's. A number of scientists,filmmakers amd artists,many of whom were Jewish,left Germany and emigrated elsewhere. Many of them ended up in the U.S. where a lot of them ended up with stellar careers here.
Could it happen again with this bill? I don't know. It might. We'll just have to wait and see.