Under Japan's current laws, it is illegal to produce and distribute child pornography. However, politicians are looking to toughen this up by making it illegal also top possess child porn. Japan is one of the few major industrialized nations not to have a law against this. However, the new law will not include comic book depictions. The proposed revision to the law would exclude manga, anime and computer graphics, but would make possession of other forms of child porn punishable by up to a year in prison and a fine of 1 million yen (nearly $10,000). The bill was debated by a ...

Getting a side job where you can watch uncensored porn sounds like a male dream come true. But hang on. Uncensored porn? Oh, right, in Japan, due to bizarre adherence to a century-old regulation created to try to make Japan similar to "moral" Christian western nations, porn has genitals blurred out. Technically, if you are selling porn in Japan that isn't pixellated, you are breaking the law. (And then it gets complicated if it's just a photo with genitals that is more "artistic" than pornographic, or if it's a mainstream film with full-frontal nudity -- all of which were also censored until ...

It has just been announced that Tokyo will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2020. Will the city try to expunge all its unsavory elements ahead of the event? The last time the city hosted the Games there was a similar campaign to "clean up" the streets, and when the Winter Games were held in Nagano they forced Pachinko parlors to close. So can we look forward to the municipal government going full-out to hide unsightly shacks that serve as residences for the homeless or the slum-like drinking dens like Piss Alley in Shinjuku? Perhaps. But we are most worried about what it may try to do to ...

Famed fashion photographer Leslie Kee (41) has been arrested by Tokyo police for the sale of "obscene" imagery at a Roppongi Gallery. Kee, Singaporean by birth but based in Tokyo, is one of three arrested for selling photo books with pictures of male genitalia. The trio are suspected of selling seven books to two customers. The photo books are from Kee's new male nude series, "Super Goh" and "Super Miki", taken over the course of a year. However, the police got wind of non-mosaic "porn" being sold at hiromi yoshii roppongi gallery and swooped in on the dangerous cock-festered ...

I've said it before but I'll say it again. Japan is too sexy for America. This even means that books are apparently too much too! Kids in New Jersey will have a tougher job finding the Murakami mega-seller in their local libraries now, since one school have banned it for too much sex. Sure, there's a bit of lesbianism, the odd one night stand... but isn't actually all the suicide more shocking? Apparently the book should still be around the state but one school removed it from a summer reading list for teenaged students, and this might surely just be the tip of the iceberg. Well, ...

A new ordinance has been passed by the Japanese government stating that extreme sexual acts such as rape, incest and other illegal sexual acts in anime and manga will be regulated as of April of 2011. The Japan Times reports that while the ordinance is not a law, the industry will be forced to "self-regulate" any and all sex acts seen as too extreme by the government. They will also be called upon to prevent the purchase of said material by those under the age of 18. The anime and manga community are taking this very seriously and several large manga production companies have even ...