Yomiuri on the game censorship situation
Yomiuri has written a news article on the matter reporting that the Liberal Democratic Party (the ruling party) has formed a team to see what can be done about the current situation with all these games featuring sexual violence in distribution. Komeito had already formed a similar team mid-May, so they will probably start to seriously get into discussions with the ruling party about tightening regulations.
The LDP held a session on the 29th of May to discuss the regulation of sexual violence in PC games. Discussing how Japan is being pointed out as being too lenient on games depicting sexual violence and child porn, and are hearing from the relevant ministries and government offices.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry which was present at the LDP meeting says that the independent review committee for the PC game industry has already responded to the current situation:
(1) restricting the sale and production of Rapelay, making it practically impossible to buy it within Japan
(2) they are in discussions regarding the banning of the sale and production of rape games or sexually violent games
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I guess this is the closest to an “official” confirmation that TBS was wrong in their report.
The directors in the EOCS mainly comprise of eroge industry people such as the chairman of Alicesoft, so they are people that would technically try to side with the eroge industry, but it does look like they are under a lot of pressure right now.
Either way it looks like some sort of change is inevitable.
Related:
Rape games will be banned in Japan
Rape games not really banned and I hate TBS
