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It was the first Japanese court trial in which a comic book stood accused of being obscene and the first in 20 years dealing with printed pornography, despite the presence of a huge amount of pornographic cartoons, photographs and videos on bookstands and on the Internet in Japan The Tokyo District Court found Monotori Kishi, a 54-year-old publisher, guilty of distributing obscene printed material and handed him a one-year prison term suspended for three years. Eminent academics and critics had testified that it was not a matter for the state to judge obscenity and restricting expression was unconstitutional.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Japan committed indescribable wrongdoings by forcing women from South Korea and elsewhere to serve as sex slaves to its wartime troops, former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama said yesterday. Four Japanese basketball players have been sent home from the Asian Games for allegedly paying prostitutes for sex, 高清A片 the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) said on Monday. A comic book which depicts genitalia and sexual acts in two thirds of its content was ruled obscene in a landmark court case which has sparked a debate on freedom of expression in Japan.

Education Minister Nariaki Nakayama was quoted by media over the weekend as saying the term "comfort women," a euphemism for the sex slaves, did not exist during the war and it was good the term had disappeared from school textbooks Japan's top government spokesman sought to contain any further damage, saying Tokyo was sorry for the sex slaves. A man walks past advertisements for comic books and compact discs on the street in Tokyo.

Kishi immediately appealed in the Tokyo High Court. A man walks past advertisements for comic books and compact discs on the street in Tokyo. Kishi's defence counsel had argued that an article in Japan's penal code, which prohibits the sale and distribution of obscene literature, violated the constitution which guarantees freedom of expression. Ties between Japan and South Korea have been strained by a range of feuds, including one over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visits to a Tokyo shrine for the war dead which Seoul, like China, sees as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.

But the term "comfort women" is set to disappear from many government-approved history textbooks for junior high schools from next year, Japanese media have reported. The book, consisting of eight short stories, was priced at 920 yen (8.7 dollars) Murayama, who as prime minister issued an apology in 1995 for Japan's wartime aggression, said that it was time for A片 Tokyo to finally resolve the issue of the so-called "comfort women" who were drafted into military brothels.

Two people -- the cartoonist and 做愛視頻 the chief editor of the comic book -- have been fined 500,000 yen (4,700 dollars) each. In April 2002, Kishi sold some 20,500 copies of the 144-page book, entitled "Misshitsu (Honey Room)" and marketed as for adults only. Historians estimate that as many as 200,000 women, mostly Korean, were forced into sexual slavery in Japanese military brothels during World War II.