JPN Court: Artist’s realistic CG images violate child porn law

[yuiyoshida]

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

In a landmark ruling, the Tokyo District Court found an artist guilty of violating the child pornography law by creating and selling realistic computer graphic images of a naked girl.

The court on March 15 sentenced Akashi Takahashi, a 55-year-old computer graphic designer from Gifu city, to a one-year prison term, suspended for three years, and fined him 300,000 yen ($2,650).

The trial highlighted a gray area in Japan’s obscenity laws. The current law banning child pornography only targets works depicting actual people.

Takahashi’s defense argued that the defendant was innocent because his CG images were based on pictures in a photo book published in the 1980s, not an actual underage girl.


http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201603160055

[PoliticAverse]

1. Similar to US law. n/t