86.5% think that manga and illustrations should be subject to child porn laws
ITmedia reports that the Japanese Cabinet Office has conducted a survey on whether manga and illustrations should be subject to child porn laws, and 58.9% have answered that it should, and another 27.6% answered that if they had to pick between the choices, they lean towards that the law should apply.
Only 6.6% answered that they lean towards that the law should not apply, and only 2.5% answered that the law should not apply at all. 4.5% answered that they don’t know.
Also, 90.9% feel that possession of child porn should be restricted, 63.2% feel that the government should regulate harmful content in magazines, DVDs, and games etc to keep them away from the children, and 90.9% feel that the government should regulate harmful content on the internet from children.
The survey was conducted by individual face to face interviews with 3000 people aged 20 and above across the whole of Japan.
I wonder what they’re trying to do, after all these recent events on censorship. And I love their method of conducting the survey.
