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. The penal code article itself does not clearly define obscenity but the legal precedent was set by a 1957 Supreme Court ruling over a Japanese translation of D.H. 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 It was the first Japanese court trial in which a comic book stood accused of being obscene and 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 committed indescribable wrongdoings by forcing women from South Korea and 成人影片 (visit Wins) elsewhere to serve as sex slaves to its wartime troops, former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama said yesterday. Two people — the cartoonist and the chief editor of the comic book — have been fined 500,000 yen (4,700 dollars) each. The penal code article itself does not clearly define obscenity but the legal precedent was set by a 1957 Supreme Court ruling over a Japanese translation of D.H. 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.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Kishi immediately appealed in the Tokyo High Court. 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. 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.
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. But the term “comfort women” is set to disappear from many government-approved history textbooks for junior high schools from next year, Japanese media have reported. 免费A片 Historians estimate that as many as 200,000 women, mostly Korean, 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) Eminent academics and critics had testified that it was not a matter for the state to judge obscenity and restricting expression was unconstitutional. Murayama, who as prime minister issued an apology in 1995 for Japan’s wartime aggression, said that it was time for Tokyo to finally resolve the issue of the so-called “comfort women” who were drafted into military brothels.