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Japan's adult video industry self-regulation and its implications on the industry, including censorship, age and consent checks, and labor protections.
lowered the legal age of majority from 20 to 18 effective April 1, 2022, which made 18- and 19-year-olds full legal adults under the civil code . In direct response to anxiety that this change would e...
Japan enforces age verification for adult-film performers through a mix of statutory reforms, administrative guidance to studios, industry self-regulation via ethics bodies, and contract-focused remed...
regulates online pornography and obscenity primarily through an older criminal obscenity statute—Article 175 of the Penal Code—which has been interpreted to require the censorship of explicit genitali...