Japan manga firms plan rival fair after porn ban
Eight major Japanese manga comic and anime film publishers on Wednesday said they will hold a rival event to Tokyo’s top industry fair in protest at a new restriction on sexually explicit materials.
The publishers have decried as censorship a rule introduced in the capital two weeks ago limiting sales of manga and anime with extreme depictions of rape, incest and other illegal sexual acts to adults.
Furious at the bill’s main sponsor, conservative city governor Shintaro Ishihara, they had announced a boycott of the industry’s top annual event, which Ishihara chairs, the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 24-27.
The group said they would hold a rival event, dubbed the Anime Contents Expo at a convention centre in Chiba, a satellite city east of Tokyo.
The ordinance passed by the Tokyo metropolitan assembly says that under-18-year-olds must not be able to buy or rent materials that depict such sexual acts in “unjustifiably glorified or exaggerated ways”.
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I find this ironic because if you go to any strip club on a week night in “The Big Apple” most of the men are Japanese or Chinese.
I don’t frequent strip clubs mind you. That is what my many former boyfriends and male friends who do report to me.