{"id":11160,"date":"2010-03-19T16:21:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2010-03-19T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:21:36","slug":"roland-kelts-column-in-daily-yomiuri-censorship-of-manga-whats-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/19\/roland-kelts-column-in-daily-yomiuri-censorship-of-manga-whats-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Kelts column in Daily Yomiuri:  Censorship of manga &#8211; What&#8217;s ok?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/japanamerica.blogspot.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/japanamerica.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Kelts<\/a> (Osaka-shi, 1998-99)<\/strong>, author of <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.japanamericabook.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japanamericabook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Japanamerica<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, has published his latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/features\/arts\/20100319TDY11101.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SOFT POWER\/HARD TRUTHS column<\/a> for <em>The Daily Yomiuri<\/em>&#8211;this one about last month&#8217;s sentencing of American Chris Handley for possession of &#8216;obscene manga&#8217; in Iowa&#8211;and this month&#8217;s proposal by the Tokyo Government to censor &#8216;virtual porn&#8217; (read: manga and anime) in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Is this another example of &#8216;<em>gaitsu<\/em>&#8216;&#8211;Japan being affected by foreign pressure?<\/p>\n<p>Column is here:\u00a0 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/features\/arts\/20100319TDY11101.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/features\/arts\/20100319TDY11101.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roland Kelts (Osaka-shi, 1998-99), author of Japanamerica, has published his latest SOFT POWER\/HARD TRUTHS column for The Daily Yomiuri&#8211;this one about last month&#8217;s sentencing of American Chris Handley for possession of &#8216;obscene manga&#8217; in Iowa&#8211;and this month&#8217;s proposal by the Tokyo Government to censor &#8216;virtual porn&#8217; (read: manga and anime) in Japan. Is this another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,26,30,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-cartoonillustration","category-celebrity","category-japan-trends","category-roland-kelts","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2U0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}