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Well, damn, this update was certainly a surprise, but a welcome one!
There are probably some things that are *different*. This is what's sometimes known as "value dissonance". This is why you see Japanese games ported to the west sometimes censor upskirt shots of those "small girl"-looking characters (who may or may not actually be small girls), such as in Tera, and why western porn exported to some eastern countries has to have the genitals censored. Different ideas of what is permissable.
Pretty sure Ungawa is right on the money (especially since he's apparently lived there for many years - cool!), but just wanted to add that this is all pretty evident when you consider Japan's censorship laws (a country that doesn't give a shit wouldn't censor porn, obvs.), and the terms used (otakus are, to my knowledge, not any more highly regarded in Japan than nerd/geeks are in the west - and that includes fetish-fueled nerds/otakus)This is just plain false.
Japan, just like any other country, has religious nutjobs and other people influencing them just like we do in America or Europe.
We don't hear about them because Japan's language is very different from Romantic. Being there for close to a decade, along with Korea and Thailand, don't think they don't have a PTA board that's heavily suppressive of sexual themes and goes "for the children"
That's just not even close to accurate.
There are probably some things that are *different*. This is what's sometimes known as "value dissonance". This is why you see Japanese games ported to the west sometimes censor upskirt shots of those "small girl"-looking characters (who may or may not actually be small girls), such as in Tera, and why western porn exported to some eastern countries has to have the genitals censored. Different ideas of what is permissable.