#SHIORI SUWANO NUDE FREE#
“There are no victims in manga we should be free to write what we want,” said Yasumasa Shimizu, vice president at Japan’s largest publishing company, Kodansha, which is participating in the boycott. But industry executives say it will essentially end publication of the material by discouraging risk-averse publishers and booksellers from handling it at all. The new law specifically bars only the sale to minors of the restricted comics and videos. “There’s no other country in the world that lets such crude works exist,” Mr. While the revised law applies to an area containing only about a tenth of Japan’s population, Tokyo is the nation’s media capital and a de facto arbiter of the country’s pop culture boundaries. Ishihara spearheaded the ordinance changes, which take effect in July. “These are for abnormal people, for perverts,” said Tokyo’s governor, Shintaro Ishihara, angrily throwing two comic books to the floor during an interview. Other local and regional governments, including the Osaka Prefecture, are considering similar restrictions. It a lucrative segment of the $5.5 billion industry for manga, illustrated books drawn in a characteristic Japanese comic-book style.Ī newly revised ordinance by Tokyo’s metropolitan government, which restricts the sale of such material, has prompted a national debate between its publishers and critics inside and outside Japan, who say the fare exploits children and may even encourage pedophilia. One particularly big target is manga comic books that depict pubescent girls in sexual acts. But now some public officials want to place tighter restrictions on the provocative depictions of young girls referred to as “junior idols” that are prevalent in magazines, DVDs and Web videos. Japan, which has long been relatively tolerant of the open sale and consumption of sexually oriented material, lately has developed a brisk trade in works that in many other countries might be considered child pornography. The model, Akari Iinuma, is 13 years old. She plays with a beach ball while being hosed down with water. Meanwhile, in a widely available new DVD, a real-life Japanese model poses in a tiny white bikini. But the teacher’s steamy fantasies fill the comic’s pages in graphic detail, including a little naked girl with sexually suggestive props. TOKYO In a manga comic book that is well known here, “My Wife Is an Elementary School Student,” a 24-year-old teacher marries a 12-year-old girl as part of a top-secret social experiment.
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