Akira Kurosawa: 10 essential films for the director's centenary
黒澤明の映画の紹介
たしかに、傑作が多い。
SOFT POWER, HARD TRUTHS / Censorship of Japanese pop culture: What's OK?
Roland Kelts / Special to The Daily Yomiuri
via mozu
エロ漫画アニメなどの規制にについて。英語圏の人にこの問題の背景を伝えるのにはバランスが取れているように思う。
The black widow of the web
Kanae Kijima is accused of meeting men online – and then killing them. David McNeill reports from Tokyo
Monday, 22 March 2010
木嶋佳苗事件の報道記事
マクニール氏
最後に
日本海外の連続殺人犯を紹介することでバランスをとっているのであろう。
もっとも、個人的事件よりも社会問題を多く扱ってきたマクニール氏だが、新境地か?
黒澤明の映画の紹介
たしかに、傑作が多い。
SOFT POWER, HARD TRUTHS / Censorship of Japanese pop culture: What's OK?
Roland Kelts / Special to The Daily Yomiuri
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Forget the recent pesky U.S.-Japan dustups over the relocation of a U.S. Marine Corps base in Okinawa Prefecture and the Toyota recall debacle. Suddenly, both postwar allies are converging on the same page in their desire to delimit the expressive sexuality in manga and anime.・・・・・
I recognize that images of childlike sexuality are potentially damaging. Even as I believe Handley, an American otaku who mail-ordered thousands of manga from Japan, only 12 of which were cited in U.S. courts as obscene, deserves more lenience, I do understand that not every child has discriminating adult guardians.
"Pedophiles frequently use realistic cartoon depictions to indoctrinate their child victims to persuade them that such [sexual] acts are okay," says Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice and a board member of Polaris Project Japan, an organization that combats human trafficking in Japan and the sexual exploitation of women and children. "When this stuff is legal, you're giving pedophiles a weapon."
But is it the fault of manga and anime artists that their work is being appropriated by criminals? Hollywood films regularly glamorize war--but are wars Hollywood's fault? And if manga and anime depictions of youthful sexuality are outlawed in Japan and the United States, will that really deter pedophiles?
I discussed this question with writers and artists in Japan and the United States, most of whom argued persuasively that works of the imagination, however they may fly in the face of social norms, need to be protected. As manga artist Yoshitoshi Abe recently wrote: "Humankind has been entrusted with power, but if we abuse that power to do away with things that we do not like, then we will give birth to a sterilized society."
It's hard for me to argue otherwise, as sympathetic as I am to concerns about child-abuse cases. If we can't commit our imaginations to paper--and now, to digital readers, which is where manga will be found soon--where else can we go?
Kelts is a Tokyo University lecturer who divides his time between Tokyo and New York. He is the author of "Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S."
via mozu
エロ漫画アニメなどの規制にについて。英語圏の人にこの問題の背景を伝えるのにはバランスが取れているように思う。
The black widow of the web
Kanae Kijima is accused of meeting men online – and then killing them. David McNeill reports from Tokyo
Monday, 22 March 2010
木嶋佳苗事件の報道記事
マクニール氏
最後に
Rogues' gallery: Female serial killers
Miyuki Ishikawa
Known as Oni-Sanba (demon midwife), Ishikawa is believed to have murdered as many as 169 infants between 1944 and 1948 at a Japanese maternity hospital, supposedly because she feared poor parents would be unable to care for their babies. She served just four years in prison.
Rosemary West
Along with husband Fred, West was accused of murdering young women at the couple's home in Gloucester, England, known as the "house of horrors". West, convicted of murdering 10 women in 1995, is serving a life term.
Dorothea Puente
In 1988, Puente was sentenced, aged 60, to life in jail for nine murders. Her victims were elderly, mentally ill tenants of her California boarding house. After killing them, she collected their social security cheques, worth $5,000 a month
日本海外の連続殺人犯を紹介することでバランスをとっているのであろう。
もっとも、個人的事件よりも社会問題を多く扱ってきたマクニール氏だが、新境地か?