Forum - View topicNEWS: Photographer Arrested in Japan for Allegedly Drugging, Assaulting 6 Cosplayers
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Wasureta
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Actually... this is the only place I visit that provides concise COVID coverage into Japan. Instead of watching a YouTuber drone on and on and on... I just get complete coverage here in a couple of paragraphs (i.e. a quick read). I use it to raise (or lower) my expectations for my next trip to Japan. |
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xxmsxx
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Yeah, ANN is a really good source for this kind of stuff. Clearly the complainer is troll if you know their past comments as well.
This is why under reporting is a real thing in rape and sexual assaults. What if this one victim didn't report it like all others? This guy would still be out there doing the same thing over and over again like he has thus far. |
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Andrew Cunningham
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The term in the Japanese article is 準強制わいせつ which definitely sounds less weird. Waisetsu is an act of indecency, seemingly used for sexual assault that stops short of rape (molestation, etc.) Kyosei is forced, so forced sexual assault. Jun is a diminishing prefix. So a more accurate translation would be quasi-forced sexual assault. I would assume physical force is required to remove the jun. Both this term and the similar 準強姦罪 (seemingly used when an actual rape takes place) seem to be specifically used in cases where the girl is too drunk or drugged to resist. (This is all based on some quick googling and knowledge of Japanese, not actual legal experience.) |
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koinosuke
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The complaints of this or industry-related COVID coverage being "off-topic" are very strange. Thie may be Anime News Network, but the site's coverage has never been strictly "anime and literally anime only." Cosplay and fandom-related news include criminal cases like this, in which someone uses a fandom-adjacent space in order to predate.
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omoikane
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This type of high profile criminal activity is relevant to fandom spaces because that is how it takes place in the first place. It's hard to imagine how it isn't to be honest. And ANN can cover whatever they want, if you don't care you can just not read it and leave it for people who do?
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NeverConvex
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ANN is also probably one of the most widely read sources by people who regularly attend conventions and/or cosplay, I'd think, yeah? In which case, like.. wouldn't you want them to try to make people aware of this sort of thing? It seems like a pretty basic community safety issue, even disregarding that it is newsworthy and "anime adjacent".
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Dumas1
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My two cents: ANN has covered the health of voice actors, directors, manga artists, and other industry figures for years. Vocal cord polyps, cancer, various chronic conditions, anything that could affect their work or even put a series on hiatus. Covid is just a particularly infectious disease that an awful lot of people are catching right now.
As for the article itself, I hope the man gets put away for a good long time. |
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blooperboy
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Cosplay is DIRECTLY DERIVED from anime so yeah, its relevant.
Cosplay does not equal consent is also a movement which gained momentum in the last few years in the convention community, which also makes it relevant. Also, you know you can just not read an article that doesn't interest you right? I don't read a lot of articles. But I don't complain about the ones that I don't read because I DON'T CARE and it's a waste of energy. In fact, no one cares if you don't care! |
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Juno016
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From the context in the article, he deliberately targetted vulnerable girls in back alleys and such. Aka. the types of girls who might be naive and/or inexperienced with approaches like his. And he may have invited many more, but clearly, the only girls who would actually go with him were also naive and/or inexperienced. Japanese people tend not to bring attention on themselves, so I can see him getting away with asking around at the very least. I have had the extreme luck to not have ever been sexually assaulted at any time in my life, but several of my friends have and none of them have reported it due to shame, fear, guilt, stigma, etc. I was actually mugged in my car last week because I left it unlocked after getting in, and if there's anything I learned from that experience (aside from locking my car doors when I'm in the car from now on), it's that I did not act like I thought I would act in that kind of situation. |
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ranran-001
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A criminal can be both a rapist and a photographer. Harping about the usage of the word photographer as a descriptive, is just beyond petty and goes into the land of stupid. |
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Zimmer
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And to all the "just don't read it" types, how was I meant to know just how relevant it was without reading it? Yeah, I'm sure it's real tough avoiding all those "X gets Covid" articles when everything you need to know is right there in the title. |
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lossthief
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It's a 3 paragraph article. It's not even 200 words. Why are you so bent out of shape about this? |
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KENZICHI
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[quote="Zimmer"][quote="Amiantos"][quote="Zimmer"]
The title is pretty specific. What more could they have put in the title that would have let you know if it was ‘relevant’ or not? I appreciate these types of articles on ANN. I hope that scumbag gets what he deserves. Horrible how long he got away for it for. |
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Zimmer
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Don't worry, mods. I know there's nothing more to be gained by continuing, so I won't bother. |
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livin_large
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It's not really any different in America Sexual battery, sexual assault, and rape are all 3 different and specifically defined things, even though the average person uses those terms interchangeably . To make it even more confusing, it's done at the state level, so that distinction varies from state to state. |
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