Murayama, who as prime minister issued an apology in 1995 for Japan's wartime aggression, said that it was time for Tokyo to finally resolve the issue of the so-called "comfort women" who were drafted into military brothels. The Tokyo District Court found Monotori Kishi, a 54-year-old publisher, guilty of distributing obscene printed material and handed him a one-year prison term suspended for three years. Historians estimate that as many as 200,000 women, mostly Korean, were forced into sexual slavery in Japanese military brothels during World War II.

It was the first Japanese court trial in which a comic book stood accused of being obscene and the first in 20 years dealing with printed pornography, despite the presence of a huge amount of pornographic cartoons, photographs and videos on bookstands and on the Internet in Japan. Four Japanese basketball players have been sent home from the Asian Games for allegedly paying prostitutes for sex, the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) said on Monday The penal code article itself does not clearly define obscenity but the legal precedent was set by a 1957 Supreme Court ruling over a Japanese translation of D.H.

In April 2002, Kishi sold some 20,500 copies of the 144-page book, entitled "Misshitsu (Honey Room)" and marketed as for adults only. The book, consisting of eight short stories, was priced at 920 yen (8.7 dollars). Japan committed indescribable wrongdoings by forcing women from South Korea and elsewhere to serve as sex slaves to its wartime troops, H片 former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama said yesterday. Japan apologized again on Monday for the suffering of women who served as sex slaves for the Japanese military during World War II, 成人影片 (https://wins.red/) a day after comments by a cabinet minister drew an angry reaction in South Korea.

South Korean politicians and media blasted Nakayama, who caused a stir last November by praising history textbooks that played down what he termed "excessive descriptions" of Japanese wartime wrongdoing Eminent academics and critics had testified that it was not a matter for the state to judge obscenity and restricting expression was unconstitutional. Kishi immediately appealed in the Tokyo High Court.如果您打算在多篇條目使用該文件，請在這裡列出其中一個；上傳文件後，打開圖像描述頁面進行編輯，手動為每篇使用文件的條目添加個別說明