Japan apologized again on Monday for the suffering of women who served as sex slaves for the Japanese military during World War II, a day after comments by a cabinet minister drew an angry reaction in South Korea. It was the first Japanese court trial in which a comic book stood accused of being obscene and 黃色A級 the first in 20 years dealing with printed pornography, despite the presence of a huge amount of pornographic cartoons, photographs and videos on bookstands and on the Internet in Japan.
Japan’s top government spokesman sought to contain any further damage, saying Tokyo was sorry for the sex slaves. Education Minister Nariaki Nakayama was quoted by media over the weekend as saying the term “comfort women,” a euphemism for the sex slaves, did not exist during the war and it was good the term had disappeared from school textbooks Ties between Japan and South Korea have been strained by a range of feuds, including one over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s annual visits to a Tokyo shrine for the war dead which Seoul, like China, sees as a symbol of Japan’s past militarism.
Four Japanese basketball players have been sent home from the Asian Games for allegedly paying prostitutes for sex, the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) said on Monday. A comic book which depicts genitalia and 成人片 sexual acts in two thirds of its content was ruled obscene in a landmark court case which has sparked a debate on freedom of expression in Japan. The Tokyo District Court found Monotori Kishi, a 54-year-old publisher, guilty of distributing obscene printed material and handed him a one-year prison term suspended for three years.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said In April 2002, Kishi sold some 20,500 copies of the 144-page book, entitled “Misshitsu (Honey Room)” and marketed as for adults only. Historians estimate that as many as 200,000 women, mostly Korean, 日韓無碼 were forced into sexual slavery in Japanese military brothels during World War II. The book, consisting of eight short stories, was priced at 920 yen (8.7 dollars) Two people — the cartoonist and the chief editor of the comic book — have been fined 500,000 yen (4,700 dollars) each.
The two sides have been unable to set a date for a regular summit meeting between Koizumi and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, which they had agreed to hold by the end of June. South Korean politicians and media blasted Nakayama, who caused a stir last November by praising history textbooks that played down what he termed “excessive descriptions” of Japanese wartime wrongdoing. In addition to a territorial row over two tiny islands, many South Koreans feel Japan has not squarely faced its wartime past, including the brutal 1910-1945 rule of the Korean peninsula.
In a bid to narrow the gap over history, the two governments launched a joint study four years ago, but a report on its results issued on Friday showed the two sides were sharply at odds on many subjects, including the sex slaves issue. Kishi immediately appealed in the Tokyo High Court.如果您打算在多篇條目使用該文件，請在這裡列出其中一個；上傳文件後，打開圖像描述頁面進行編輯，手動為每篇使用文件的條目添加個別說明 A comic book which depicts genitalia and sexual acts in two thirds of its content was ruled obscene in a landmark court case which has sparked a debate on freedom of expression in Japan.