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in title, tags, annotations or urlNonexistent Youth's Guide to Regulation and Censorship in Japan March 2010 Edition - 0 views
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documents leading to the creation of the bill and information extracted by Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly members indicate that BL (Boys Love,) Yaoi, Ladies Comics, romantic Shojo Manga, and many publications aimed toward girls and women are being targeted.
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Why are women's publications more likely to be affected by this bill? Because the common visual style in such material is not as graphic as with men's publications, and therefore "not erotic, but dangerous subject matter" criteria for regulation will probably have an impact of women more than men's manga and anime fictio
DA! Desktop Anime [Welcome] - 1 views
'Doraemon' museum set to open next year - 0 views
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The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum is scheduled to open Sept. 3, 2011, in Kawasaki, the city where he spent more than three decades until his death in 1996
Thought Police Can't Protect Real Children - 2 views
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would have established the catagory of "nonexistent youth"
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The banning of fictional depictions of child abuse would likely be as meaningless as the banning of fictional depictions of car chasing with the aim toward reducing motor vehicle accidents in real life.
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If content alone was the issue, war footage and horror films should be banned as well.
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Anime and Manga Portal - theOtaku.com - 0 views
Japan at Chicago Conference - 1 views
Tokyo's Akihabara Allows Pedestrians on Streets Again - Anime News Network - 0 views
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The "Pedestrians' Paradise" tradition abruptly ended when a 27-year-old man named Tomohiro Katō reportedly struck five individuals with a truck at an intersection near the main Japan Railways station of Akihabara on Sunday, June 8, 2008. He then allegedly proceeded to leave the vehicle and stab 12 people on the streets. By the following Sunday, "Pedestrians' Paradise" was put on hold until further notice.
Youth Brigade: Clearing up the Tokyo Youth Ordinance Bill - 0 views
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This bill is not good for the Japanese anime and manga industry as a whole; it is not good for publishers, and it is not good for the creators. As anime and manga fans, we are constantly fighting against the preconceived notion that such entertainment is just for kids. Unfortunately, if this law remains on the books and creators cannot make the daring works they wish, anime and manga may indeed turn into unquestioning, lobotomized entertainment for little kiddies from here on out.
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Bill 156 is not an across the board muzzling of creativity and critical art in Japan. However, it is potentially a hollowing out of two of Japan's most noteworthy art forms.
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novels and films are not affected by this law
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