- Nov 2, 2017
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Dunno, about illegal per say. When I was over there video stores would seemlessly transition from non porn to nothing but porn as you walked up the stairs. I didn't even know that was where I was going at first. Explored the first floor of non porn. Then walked up the stairs, which were covered in poster adds on the way up, and noticed the girls in the posters started wearing less and less until they were full on porn lol. In that building alone I found like 1 floor of non porn and like 4 floors of porn.Cause Japan.
I hope once the olympics are done and the whole "cleaning the appearance of the country" matter is over someone will finally bring up the argument about how idiotic is to keep to make this censored stuff.
But i heard that "porn" in a strict sense is virtually illegal in Japan. And the industry keep existing by basically paying bribes to the authorities, and of course toning the content down with the censorship. So basically there is lotsa money involved going into japanese treasury. And this can be the main reason this stupid censorship keep being imposed to japanese porn industry.
And that was just 1 place. I found this in several other buildings as well in that area. Whole floors of video porn. They even sold porn vids on the psp system. That's not even to mention the content of said porn. Some of which were definitely... questionable... legally. And that was in Akiba, not some red light district lol. I'd say the censoring allows them to be alot more... brazen with their porn. Even if the the idea of it seems really dumb.