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   (NY Times) - In a manga comic book that is well known here, “My   
   Wife Is an Elementary School Student,” a 24-year-old teacher   
   marries a 12-year-old girl as part of a top-secret social   
   experiment.   
      
   There is no depiction of actual sex. But the teacher’s steamy   
   fantasies fill the comic’s pages in graphic detail, including a   
   little naked girl with sexually suggestive props.   
      
   Meanwhile, in a widely available new DVD, a real-life Japanese   
   model poses in a tiny white bikini. She makes popcorn in a maid’s   
   costume. She plays with a beach ball while being hosed down with   
   water.   
      
   The model, Akari Iinuma, is 13 years old.   
      
   Japan, which has long been relatively tolerant of the open sale and   
   consumption of sexually oriented material, lately has developed a   
   brisk trade in works that in many other countries might be   
   considered child pornography. But now some public officials want to   
   place tighter restrictions on the provocative depictions of young   
   girls — referred to as “junior idols”— that are prevalent in   
   magazines, DVDs and Web videos.   
      
   One particularly big target is manga comic books that depict   
   pubescent girls in sexual acts. It a lucrative segment of the $5.5   
   billion industry for manga, illustrated books drawn in a   
   characteristic Japanese comic-book style.   
      
   A newly revised ordinance by Tokyo’s metropolitan government, which   
   restricts the sale of such material, has prompted a national debate   
   between its publishers and critics inside and outside Japan, who   
   say the fare exploits children and may even encourage pedophilia.   
   Other local and regional governments, including the Osaka   
   Prefecture, are considering similar restrictions...   
      
   Continued: http://sn.im/MangaMinors   
      
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