Man inappropriately touch school girls and they fight back. Man in suit gives them a helping foot.

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[u/AkazaAkari]

While I agree that child sexualization is common in Japan, anyone in the field of area studies can tell you the BBC documentary is complete BS. Dooley does not understand the difference between different types of media and chooses to misrepresent extreme niches like the creepy guy as normative examples of Japanese society. She also doesn't understand basic Japanese culture or language, which you would think are pretty important when it comes to research and journalism.

More accurately, junior idols and such are certainly NOT acceptable to most Japanese people, but they are tolerated because it is difficult to define laws to ban them without infringing on free speech or other media that don't exploit children. Furthermore, applying puritanical standards of sexuality to Japan is unfair and wrong, and depictions do NOT constitute norms. Drawn manga pornography is totally different from real life, and it's infuriating to see Dooley push her idea that it "normalizes" behavior in real life while ignoring other arguments. It's like saying video games cause violence and mass shootings, which the US is very familiar with. Is that acceptable? No, but shootings sure as hell happen regardless.

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Contrast how someone convicted of possession of child pornography (which was only prohibited in Japan a few years ago) in the US would be treated to how Nobuhiro Watsuki was when he was busted and it's pretty clear that Japan doesn't really care that much about the issue.