{"id":6830,"date":"2004-01-14T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/14\/update-on-beauty-hair-trial\/"},"modified":"2004-01-14T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T14:38:00","slug":"update-on-beauty-hair-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/update-on-beauty-hair-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Beauty Hair Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC News has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/3391951.stm\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that Shobunkan Publishing president Motonori Kishi has been found guilty of publishing and distributing obscene material in Japan, namely the &#8220;Misshitsu&#8221; adult manga by artist &#8220;Beauty Hair&#8221; (Suwa Yuuji). Suwa Yuuji and his publisher were first charged with violating Japan&#8217;s obscenity laws in October 2002. The guilty verdict is on appeal, but if it stands, it may deal a massive blow to Japan&#8217;s manga and animation industry, which accounts for nearly half of all published books and periodicals in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>For more detail and background information on the trial, refer to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenation.net\/news\/askjohn.php?id=799\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ask John&#8221; article<\/a> and its reference links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC News has reported that Shobunkan Publishing president Motonori Kishi has been found guilty of publishing and distributing obscene material in Japan, namely the &#8220;Misshitsu&#8221; adult manga by artist &#8220;Beauty Hair&#8221; (Suwa Yuuji). Suwa Yuuji and his publisher were first charged with violating Japan&#8217;s obscenity laws in October 2002. The guilty verdict is on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}