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Author Sues Police for Taking Manga off Shelves
Posted by Lady Gaga in News Articles April 07, 2010 at 12:19:11 AM
The Asahi Shimbun paper reports that author Manabu Miyazaki is suing the Fukuoka police for allegedly asking convenience stores to remove yakuza-related literature from their shelves.
According to Miyazaki, 73 manga volumes and three magazines had been removed from convenience store shelves in late December, with other stores soon following suit. Included in the list of removed material was a manga based on Miyazaki's own yakuza-themed memoirs. (Kotan published one of Miyazaki's books, Toppamono: Outlaw, Radical, Suspect, My Life In Japan's Underworld, in English.) Miyazaki, who said that these actions suppressed free speech, is demanding 5.5 million yen (about US$59,000) in damages. The Fukuoka police say that they were enforcing an ordinance meant to curtail the influence of the yakuza.
source: animenewsnetwork
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Posted by on April 08, 2010 at 11:21:21 PM
This is funny because the police believe that a manga could influence the mind of a reader, and even though the only truly gullible mind willing to believe anything is a child's (around 5~10 years of age), the child's parents shouldn't allow them to read a manga of most likely mature content, especially something that could be potentially dangerous to the child. If a teenager or adult is influenced by a manga into doing harmful things, then they shouldn't have been reading the manga in the first place, which makes things much funnier due to their immaturity, though also much more dangerous to both the influenced reader and the people around them.
Posted by on April 07, 2010 at 01:25:22 PM
that's funny... i don't know why but it is
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