Just stumbled across this info & I& #39;m genuinely shocked that I& #39;ve never seen anyone post it before

Apparently a JP government poll had 86.5% of its respondents say that anime & manga depictions should fall under child porn regulations

Kind of destroys the "puritan west" angle

This is from a now-inaccessible (at least via my phone googling) Asia Times article, so I am somewhat skeptical of it, just because as I said, SURELY this would& #39;ve been pulled out constantly as a discourse trump card

Maybe I& #39;m just too good at research tho & made a new discovery

Alright here& #39;s the specific phrasing and statistical breakdown, yes, this is real

The vast majority of the Japanese public believes sexually explicit artwork of minors SHOULD be regulated under Japan& #39;s existing child pornography laws: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-10-25/japanese-poll-87-percent-accept-manga-child-porn-regulation">https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007...

It is somewhat funny that ppl simultaneously hold up Japan as an untouched Eden of pre-sjw traditional conservatism but then also expected that country to just be totally cool w/ explicit pornographic depictions of 11 yr olds getting blasted by tentacles

Like, those do not match