[ SECRET POST #6259 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6259 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Right? I know it’s different people involved but it makes me go ??? that Sakurai was instadropped for cheating while the Rurouni Kenshin mangaka gets a pass for having so much CSEM that they thought he was a distributor.

[(Anonymous)]

WHAT. I remember when the Watsuki Nobuhiro stuff came out, but I had no idea he was still successful. I just looked it up and apparently he was only fined what amounts to 1.5k USD, and then continued work like nothing happened. What the fuck.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

he was exactly who i was thinking of when i made the comment.

priorities, people.

[(Anonymous)]

It just goes to show you that Japan has very different morés.

[(Anonymous)]

It's only very recently that child porn or even child sexual abuse within the family has been considered such a horrible thing rather than a shame on the victim (which is still true in many places) so I wouldn't get too "Japan is different" about it.

[(Anonymous)]

You could possibly say that about child sexual abuse, but possessing child porn has not just recently been considered a horrible thing. It's been illegal for decades in the West.

Japan is absolutely different in this regard. The age of consent was 13 until last year, and possessing CSAM has only been illegal there since 2014, under a law that's weaker than the laws in Canada, the US, most of Europe, most of Latin America, etc. Do you think that if Watsuki lived in, say, London instead of Tokyo, and had been arrested there instead, he would have gotten off with just a fine and no jail time?

[(Anonymous)]

The age of consent federally was 13, but each region had a much higher age of consent. It’s a myth that the actual age of consent is 13 in Japan.

[(Anonymous)]

You can't simultaneously acknowledge the existence of something and also declare that it's a myth.

But you're also not touching at all the bit that's really at issue, which is the treatment of child porn. Did he or did he not get off with a fine for a crime that elsewhere would put him in prison? Did his reputation remain intact or not for a crime that would end his career elsewhere? Are we just to ignore that for the sake of pretending All Countries Are Exactly the Same? Shall we declare that the rest of the world is as riddled with gun violence as the US, instead of acknowledging that the US, in that regard, is different? Shall we declare that all countries treat women and LGBT people are poorly as Saudi Arabia does so we don't have to acknowledge a difference there? Perhaps Norway is as authoritarian as China, and Chile has the same percentage of Muslim inhabitants as Iran, and Canada has many Roman Catholics as Italy, and North Korea is a social democracy known for its fine wine, and Spanish is the primary language of Singapore, and each of these nations are completely indistinguishable from one another.