Apologies for YouTuber link - as some of the sources cited are in Japanese, it’s harder to get to a direct English source. The video description includes links to the Yahoo.jp article.

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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      10 hours ago

      defenders of freedom?

      We’re going through a bit of a far-right thing at the moment, so you may want to hold off on that assessment.

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        16 hours ago

        This is a country that has porn mags being sold in convenience stores and plenty of stores where you can find content for all sorts of fetishes both online and offline. They also have 2 huge indie artist markets every year where at least 50% of the content being sold is porn. Each event gets about 300k people. Only thing I can think of regarding censorship here are the mosaics and those are only really there due to a very old law that no lawmakers are gonna bother with expending political capital to reverse.

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        24 hours ago

        I don’t think they are. Protectionist and interested in their exports, seem more likely.

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          23 hours ago

          While this is probably true. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say countries like Japan and South Korea are probably better at democracy than the “west” atp