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Apologies for YouTuber link - as some of the sources cited are in Japanese, it’s harder to get to a direct English source. The video description includes links to the Yahoo.jp article.

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hepl yes, based japan, defenders of freedom?

That felt totally normal to say.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How is Japan anti-censorship? What a time to be alive

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

japan exists in a superstate of being pro censorship and anti censorship

[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is a country that has porn mags being sold in convenience stores and plenty of stores where you can find content for all sorts of fetishes both online and offline. They also have 2 huge indie artist markets every year where at least 50% of the content being sold is porn. Each event gets about 300k people. Only thing I can think of regarding censorship here are the mosaics and those are only really there due to a very old law that no lawmakers are gonna bother with expending political capital to reverse.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seriously. I was so surpeiced when I learned that porn in Japan is serialized and you only need to know the serial number of a porn to find the exact one piece you are looking for.

[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Porn is serious business man

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's the indie artist market called?

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think they are. Protectionist and interested in their exports, seem more likely.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While this is probably true. I don't think it's a stretch to say countries like Japan and South Korea are probably better at democracy than the "west" atp

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's maybe not include a straight up oligarchy corpo state like south korea in that statement. Better than the usa? Maybe, but they'd even give that a run for the money, and just barely win out.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Japan isn’t much better for oligarchy.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

defenders of freedom?

We're going through a bit of a far-right thing at the moment, so you may want to hold off on that assessment.

Aren't we all?

And like i said; felt like a totally normal thing to say.