To enjoy our content, please include The Japan Times on your ad-blocker's list of approved sites. Aichi Prefectural Police conducted raids on the Internet retailer's Tokyo headquarters and a distribution center in Chiba Prefecture on Jan. The Diet has voted to outlaw possession of child pornography after years of international calls for a crackdown, but sexually explicit manga and anime is exempt. The Saitama baby sitter arrested over the death of a child in his care is served a fresh warrant on suspicion of producing child pornography. Police in April started increaseing cooperation with Internet service providers to help contain the distribution of child pornography in and from Japan, which has long been criticized for not taking strict enough measures,. If you want people to pay attention to a point you're making, try to bring the subject of children into the debate. Right now, the media is discussing a decision made by the board of education of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, to limit student access It looks like you're using an ad blocker. Thank you for supporting our journalism.


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The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. Even as young as 7 or 8. Alex80 - Disillusioned: honestly it's not a Japanese men only thing. Sadly, all men around the world are attracted to young girls. I never said it was specific to Japan. However, this article is about the amount of child porn cases 'in Japan', which makes international comparisons irrelevant. The thing is, nobody truly cares here. Japanese are too used to keeping their heads buried in the sand.
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Inside the city, change is in the breeze. Not a big deal, you might think: western girls have been doing that for decades. But it is hard to overestimate the influence the book had in Japan, a country where radicalism and conservatism sit shoulder to shoulder.
Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you. Japan in joined other major developed nations and criminalised the possession of child pornography following calls by campaigners who complained it was a major international source of such material. Before the changes came into effect last year, it was the only Group of Seven nation in which the possession of sexualised images or videos of people under 18 remained legal.