Taiwanese educational company “sent porno films to Japanese kindergarten”

You couldn’t make it up! This is a juicy story that’s almost too good to be true.

Kyodo News is reporting an amazing international faux pas involving kindergarten kids in Japan, an educational video maker in Taiwan, and… porn!

Educational videos a Taiwanese company manufactured for kindergarten children in Japan based on an order from the Japanese government included pornographic films, Taiwan media has reported.

The Apple Daily, Liberty Times and Next Magazine reported in their Thursday editions that the Japanese government awarded a Japanese firm a contract to manufacture educational videos for kindergarten children across the country.

The Japanese company then subcontracted other firms to manufacture the videos, including a Taiwanese compact disc replication company, Sojean International Co., an affiliate of ABICO-FS Co.

The reports said a Tokyo kindergarten first discovered in March this year that the supposed educational video was actually a porn film. Other kindergartens subsequently made the same discovery.

Hmm… reminds of the Thai math textbook publisher who accidentally used an image from Japanese porn on its cover!

Rest assured, the Japanese government has issued a recall.

Of the approximately 40,000 videos distributed, about 30,000 have been recalled, over 80 of which turned out to be porn movies, the reports said.

The reports said the Japanese company blamed the Taiwanese firm for the manufacturing blunder, which it said made it “a joke” in Japan’s educational circle and that it is planning to file a legal complaint in Taiwan, seeking ¥520 million in compensation.

Will they get it? The Taiwanese are dismissive.

“It is an allegation made by a disgruntled company,” they said.

There may be more than meets the eye to this already very bizarre tale. ABICO-FS says its Japanese client owes it money and this allegation may simply be a scheme to distract attention from their wrongdoings.