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is uncensorship in japanese porn illegal
<p>According to some laws in japan censorship is a must for adult films but why does uncensored porn in JAPANESE ADULT VIDEOS ,PORNHUB,ETC exist is that legal? of not what charges they could be facing?</p>

<p>Article 175 of the <a href="https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3581/en" rel="noreferrer">Criminal Code</a> says:</p>
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<p>A person who distributes, sells or displays in public an obscene document, drawing or other objects shall be punished by imprisonment with work for not more than 2 years, a fine of not more than 2,500,000 yen or a petty fine. The same shall apply to a person who possesses the same for the purpose of sale.</p>
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<p>This has been interpreted to require pixelization, blurring, censorship bars, or other means of obscuring genitalia.</p>
<p>See the <a href="https://cbldf.org/2013/12/core-magazine-pleads-guilty-in-japanese-obscenity-case/" rel="noreferrer">2013 guilty plea by publishers of Core Magazine</a> for an example prosecution under art. 175 for insufficient censorship.</p>
<p>The law apparently does not reach material that is produced and edited and sold outside of Japan (even if filmed in Japan). See e.g. the discussion of <em>Realm</em> (1976) in Kirsten Fischer, <em>The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan</em>, p. 198-199:</p>
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<p>[the film] was not prosecutable because of Ōshima’s innovative production strategy ... He had imported the film stock from France, shot the film
in Kyoto, and then exported the undeveloped film back to France, where
he developed and edited it and finally distributed it internationally, including importing it back to Japan.</p>
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<p>A &quot;heavily cut form [was] eventually screened in Japan.&quot;</p>
