![]() The national government is considering making possession of child pornography illegal - currently it is not. Japan's Gender Equality Bureau of the Cabinet Office told CNN that the government was aware the international community is outraged by the games. There are whole sets of non-issues that are not raised for political debate in Japan, so they don't filter into the consciousness of most Japanese people," said Cleveland.īut they are becoming issues in our borderless digital world. "What you have in Japan is policymakers and politicians who are in some ways blind to these issues because you have a relatively male-dominated, elderly political class that was raised under a different set of gender norms and have never acknowledged the feminist critiques that have become integrated in American and Western consciousness. That lack of participation of women in positions of power sets the cultural stage for why hentai games thrive openly in the country. 'Rapelay' video game goes viral amid outrageĪccording to the 2009 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap report, Japan ranked 101 out of 134 countries, called abysmally low by women's groups considering it is the world's second largest economy. The moral entrepreneurs that are scrutinizing Japan have both a feminist history and cultural tradition that is simply not in play in Japan." "It's no surprise that this is expressed in mass media and pornography. It has been historically and remains to this day," said Cleveland. Cleveland explains that the outrage from critics is borne through the prism of their own cultures, a Western sensibility with an entirely different cultural norm than what exists in Japan. Yes, there is enough material to fill an entire university level syllabus. Kyle Cleveland, an associate professor of sociology at Temple University in Japan, teaches a course called "Youth and Deviant Subcultures in Japan." Part of that would be true, but the reason hentai continues to thrive in a country as progressive as Japan is a complex cultural issue. It is terribly easy to condemn Japan as a sexist and repressed culture with a government that chooses to look the other way. Tokyo, Japan (CNN) - In the two days since CNN.com posted the story on hentai games (specifically, the "RapeLay" video game), there have been thousands of comments, more than a million page views and many questions about how a culture can produce this genre of games and then quietly allow the industry to thrive. He says he believes international debate will pressure Japan to amend laws.Temple University professor says Japan has some of world's worst child pornography.Japanese government says it is aware of international outrage toward games.Lack of participation of women in power sets stage for popularity of hentai games.
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