Comments on: Yoshitoshi ABe Translation: “Regarding the Youth Protection and Nurturing Ordinance amendment (or, the so-called Nonexistent Youth Problem)”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:17:56 +0000

according to wikipedia, the voting was “skipped”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_cartoon_pornography_depicting_minors

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:59:49 +0000

@Shii: the voting was postponed to when ?

By: vessto

vessto — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:25:14 +0000

Perfect speach! I found it through yaoi related site. I think the big problem is not the same loli and shota but that some characters in the other genres looks like minors without being minors. Also sometimes some character is under 18 but looks like 20-25. What about these cases? They have to refine the text. Also when they succeeded to prevent the REAL minors that they want to prevent the imaginary ones?o_O

By: Shii

Shii — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:54:33 +0000

The vote was postponed.

By: 1

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:58:23 +0000

Vote was on March 30, why are there no updates?

By: shobon

shobon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:42:04 +0000

Well since I like him a lot, I was expecting a lot more out of him. He’s been fairly interesting in previous interviews. It was a let down. Oh well.

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By: shii

shii — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:29:48 +0000

I’m not sure why you were expecting ABe to be some sort of cross-cultural wunderkind; I just translated the post because the Japanese view on freedom of speech is interesting, and ABe was a more interesting person to present it than, say, the speakers at the “emergency conference” earlier this week.

By: shobon

shobon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:03:00 +0000

I love ABe but this is such a generic Japanese response. I realize I’m doing some serious stereotyping here, but this sort of surface level, somewhat baseless, way of going against “the mold” is totally Japanese. A lot of it is kind of lost in translation, but at its core the message is really simple and not at all believable.

So if we are exposed to good and bad things then we’ll know what’s good or bad? I mean it’s totally ridiculous to just assume this is true. It’s not completely off, but what he should have said is just “in order to have a society with free thought (which is hard to find in Japan as it is) we need to push ourselves to allow intellectual freedom no matter how disruptive it may be.” I’m assuming ABe is just taking the Japanese route and is sort of beating around the bush here (and also making an argument that appeals to Japanese sensibilities).

Anyways, that’s just my take on it. I’ve heard about a thousand similar arguments from coworkers and in other interviews. This is not, however, to say that the average individual in any other country is much better.

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