Two South Australian crossbench politicians call for an urgent review of classification laws, after discovering manga and anime sold in Australia that depict sexual images of children, including ...

Japan bans possession of child pornography but not explicit animation. Some manga, anime shows children being sexually abused . Cartoonists say a ban would hurt the entire industry ...

Japan has banned the ownership of child pornographic images, in a bill passed yesterday, and is one of the last developed nations to do so. The production and distribution was already illegal ...

Manga and anime industries to be exempt from Japan's new law banning images of child abuse. At least 600 children a year fall victim to paedophile directors and photographers ...

Japanese police have arrested 40-year-old manga creator Kenya Suzuki on suspicion of importing child pornography, violating the country’s laws about importing banned goods. Suzuki’s most ...

Texas' Senate Bill 20, a law aimed at outlawing AI-generated child pornography, may implicate anime and manga fans. Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

The law, however, does not cover the popular anime (animations) and manga (cartoon) depictions of child pornography -- images which can be very graphic and violent.

The ban on child pornography originally included a by-law which promoted research into the relationship between the consumption of manga or anime, and sex crimes against children. But this by-law ...

But in Japan, child pornography laws introduced in 1999 apply only to photographic or live-action video content of real children, not to manga, anime and video games.

Sexually explicit Japan manga evades new laws on child pornography. By Will Ripley and Hilary Whiteman, CNN and Edmund Henry, (CNN) — They stare wide-eyed from the pages of magazines, ...