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BabyLove commented at 2016-09-13 06:04:13 » #2018849
No, no. Blame America is right. This might seem esoteric of a concept and my memory is a bit hazy on the subject, but part of America's punishment for Japan after WW2 was leaving behind an infrastructure that enforced censorship of sexuality.
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No, no. Blame America is right. This might seem esoteric of a concept and my memory is a bit hazy on the subject, but part of America's punishment for Japan after WW2 was leaving behind an infrastructure that enforced censorship of sexuality.
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Anonymous commented at 2016-09-13 10:49:03 » #2018944
A time before the war and during it, Japans enforcement of censorship of all things went up. From pornography to political statements against the government and everything in-between. In fact, pornography was outlawed completely.
The thing America did was get rid of a lot of those censorship laws, but some old laws, like the one from the Meiji era mentioned above, stayed put or were put back in place by Japan itself for one reason or another. I had heard it was due to an outcry for it from certain Japanese groups at the time, but I don't know much more than that.
"America is the reason Japan censored all the porn" is actually what people commonly believe, when really there's a lot more to it than that and what I said to be the case is just scratching the surface to what -really- happened.
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A time before the war and during it, Japans enforcement of censorship of all things went up. From pornography to political statements against the government and everything in-between. In fact, pornography was outlawed completely.
The thing America did was get rid of a lot of those censorship laws, but some old laws, like the one from the Meiji era mentioned above, stayed put or were put back in place by Japan itself for one reason or another. I had heard it was due to an outcry for it from certain Japanese groups at the time, but I don't know much more than that.
"America is the reason Japan censored all the porn" is actually what people commonly believe, when really there's a lot more to it than that and what I said to be the case is just scratching the surface to what -really- happened.
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