Modifying Your Game Console and Any Game Saves You Have Is Now Illegal In Japan - Meanwhile, Chinese bootleggers are just pointing and laughing at them.

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

What would PC modding even mean in that context? The Japanese don't really have a PC gaming culture anyway.

They do now.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

Japan is probably the only major westernized country that whores out to corporations more than the USA.

Nah, that's normal for them

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

The wording of this is strange. Does this apply to older consoles or PC modding? I can see this as a slippery slope if not worded properly.

This is a staple of japanese law. They make a paragraph so poorly worded that it applies to everything and nothing at the same time.
There was a law suggested by Ishihara Shintaro back when he was still governor of Tokyo, that was originally meant to ban lolicon-manga, however it was written, it would ban "indecent content inapproriate for young readers", thereforeso it wouldn't have applied to adult entertainment in the slightest - instead it could be applied to everything from Anpanman to Berserk.

The silly mosaic censorship of their pornos is the same. Porn is forbidden, but with the censorship, it's not considered porn.
Bonuspoints: Back when the law was introduced, the ones doing the censorship for print media manually by putting lines over the naughty bits, were mainly part-timers, so highschoolers and mothers working while their kids are in school.

Japanese laws are fucking exceptional.

 

[m0rnutz]

Come and get me, squinty.

This is a staple of japanese law. They make a paragraph so poorly worded that it applies to everything and nothing at the same time.
There was a law suggested by Ishihara Shintaro back when he was still governor of Tokyo, that was originally meant to ban lolicon-manga, however it was written, it would ban "indecent content inapproriate for young readers", thereforeso it wouldn't have applied to adult entertainment in the slightest - instead it could be applied to everything from Anpanman to Berserk.

The silly mosaic censorship of their pornos is the same. Porn is forbidden, but with the censorship, it's not considered porn.
Bonuspoints: Back when the law was introduced, the ones doing the censorship for print media manually by putting lines over the naughty bits, were mainly part-timers, so highschoolers and mothers working while their kids are in school.

Japanese laws are fucking exceptional.

"We want to ban this but werew too lazy do werewnot banning it. We'll ban it a little."

 

[MaxiMax]

This is a staple of japanese law. They make a paragraph so poorly worded that it applies to everything and nothing at the same time.
There was a law suggested by Ishihara Shintaro back when he was still governor of Tokyo, that was originally meant to ban lolicon-manga, however it was written, it would ban "indecent content inapproriate for young readers", thereforeso it wouldn't have applied to adult entertainment in the slightest - instead it could be applied to everything from Anpanman to Berserk.

The silly mosaic censorship of their pornos is the same. Porn is forbidden, but with the censorship, it's not considered porn.
Bonuspoints: Back when the law was introduced, the ones doing the censorship for print media manually by putting lines over the naughty bits, were mainly part-timers, so highschoolers and mothers working while their kids are in school.

Japanese laws are fucking exceptional.

For the defense of japanese lawmakers... have you ever tried to create a normal and clear sentence in japanese ?
More than half the words they have to use can have hundred of significations depending on the context and japanese langage is so confusing that children must learn thousands of symbols, how they are meant to be read and what they can maybe signify when they are in school. Even the adults over there have difficulty remembering how to read some stuff.

With that in mind that their laws are stupidly worded and can mean nothing and everything at the same time is not that surprising really

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

For the defense of japanese lawmakers... have you ever tried to create a normal and clear sentence in japanese ?
More than half the words they have to use can have hundred of significations depending on the context and japanese langage is so confusing that children must learn thousands of symbols, how they are meant to be read and what they can maybe signify when they are in school. Even the adults over there have difficulty remembering how to read some stuff.

With that in mind that their laws are stupidly worded and can mean nothing and everything at the same time is not that surprising really

It's a high-context language, yeah, however you can still make succinct, specific and precise sentences, depending on the exact choice of words.
Homonyms are not an issue when you have the written word, due to the Kanji that you mentioned yourself.
And if that isn't enough, you can clarify it by commenting on it in another sentence and repeating it with different terms - something that scientific texts like to do every now and then.
Assuming you're not the Saul Goodman of japanese lawyers, you should not have a problem with reading terms that pertain to jurisprudence.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

I only saw this as: HACKED POKEMANS ARE SRS BUSINESS.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

It's a high-context language, yeah, however you can still make succinct, specific and precise sentences, depending on the exact choice of words.
Homonyms are not an issue when you have the written word, due to the Kanji that you mentioned yourself.
And if that isn't enough, you can clarify it by commenting on it in another sentence and repeating it with different terms - something that scientific texts like to do every now and then.
Assuming you're not the Saul Goodman of japanese lawyers, you should not have a problem with reading terms that pertain to jurisprudence.

I don't know. Logographic writing systems like theirs can be complicated enough (outside of korean) to sometimes stump a college educated worker at times in regards to pronunciation. Compare it to English where you can literally make or steal a word on the spot and you can see a lot of wiggle room even in seemingly specific circumstances which is likely compounded by their being a bad actor like a megacorporation involved. In either case, they'll enforce this law as well as the speed limit in Atlanta.

 

[DragoonSierra]

This is a staple of japanese law. They make a paragraph so poorly worded that it applies to everything and nothing at the same time.
There was a law suggested by Ishihara Shintaro back when he was still governor of Tokyo, that was originally meant to ban lolicon-manga, however it was written, it would ban "indecent content inapproriate for young readers", thereforeso it wouldn't have applied to adult entertainment in the slightest - instead it could be applied to everything from Anpanman to Berserk.

The silly mosaic censorship of their pornos is the same. Porn is forbidden, but with the censorship, it's not considered porn.
Bonuspoints: Back when the law was introduced, the ones doing the censorship for print media manually by putting lines over the naughty bits, were mainly part-timers, so highschoolers and mothers working while their kids are in school.

Japanese laws are fucking exceptional.

when was that mosaic law introduce?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

when was that mosaic law introduce?

Can't remember the timeline exactly, but the censorship fiasco with the highschoolers happened like in the 70s and 80s and their job was to put black bars on hardcore photographs to censor them. I bet these guys would have loved access to smartphones with HD cams back in the day...
Japan always had very strict and idiotic censorship laws. I remember that at some point, they wanted to ban pornography, but they didn't want to use terms for genitals, so they vaguely banned the display of "pubic hair". Naturally, this was easily avoided by shaving the girls and guys of the biz. Took them a while to come up with the idiotic terms they have today, where porn is banned, yet they have the largest porn industry in the world.

I don't know. Logographic writing systems like theirs can be complicated enough (outside of korean) to sometimes stump a college educated worker at times in regards to pronunciation.

Sure, but when you're a lawyer, you should know legal terms. And it's not that hard to look them up, you might be unsure of the exact pronounciation in some cases, but you can usually get a pretty decent idea, since the different readings of a Kanji aren't that far off from one another.

The vagueness of some japanese laws is by design, not by language. It allows old ultra-conservative fuckwads to point at something and go "I don't like this, make it illegal!".
Point in case: Ishihara Shintaro, who wanted to ban loli-manga, is also an author who wrote books about 14 year old girls having sex.

 

[Slap47]

Nah, that's normal for them

Well its the actually the source of all of their countries problems.

Germany and the USA and doing spectacularly because they have lots of small companies and businesses competing with eachother.

Japan is still dominated by a bunch of inefficient and overly bureaucratic mega-corporations that are overly subsidized. It's a lie that Japanese people overwork themselves, they put in alot of hours but do very little work because they have a system that encourages not doing work efficiently and not working at full capacity.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

This law is the Japanesiest thing I've ever heard.