Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!enews.sgi.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Dan Rempel Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: RASHOMON Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:55:12 -0800 Organization: Organization is overrated Message-ID: <10ea0b78ac8e59e00c0bb5a52636dcff@grapevine.islandnet.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1108439605.544379.140890@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <42133E63.7600F77A@yahoo.co.jp> <1108589259.092407.72510@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <4214D322.DE6DF252@yahoo.co.jp> <1108662756.514257.182700@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <4214F1F1.819E5753@yahoo.co.jp> <1108675003.401172.75020@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <4215EF1F.CA1DF353@yahoo.co.jp> <1108734775.787985.179740@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1108734775.787985.179740@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Tracking: 42160FE1857D732F916A7A67897C6602D33B3874D8212072CF3A2762D93C2F77D6 X-Report-Abuse-To: news@islandnet.com X-NNRP-Cache: Grapevine 2.0 -- http://grapevine.islandnet.com/ X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 61 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25382 John W. wrote: > Eric Takabayashi wrote: > >>"John W." wrote: >> >> >>>You will see, however, many examples of >>>young >>> >>>>women or girls of sex objects in American live action movies, >>> >>>magazines or >>> >>>>online pay sites such as those with a girl's first name and age > > plus > >>>dot >>> >>>>com. This month I read the claim that 60%? of child porn online >>> >>>originates >>> >>>>in the US. A far cry from the time maybe 80% was claimed to > > originate > >>>in >>> >>>>Japan. >>> >>>I certainly agree it's a problem here. Lately it seems to be > > getting > >>>worse, and I can't help but wonder if the anime influence isn't > > part of > >>>that. >> >>You believe that entertainment, and from a foreign source at that, >>resulted in what we see? Wow. > > > In part, yes. Don't read too much into what I said, though; I said > influence, and I sincerely believe that's true. It does work that way, > you know; the entertainment industry (of whatever country) is going to > give audiences stuff that makes said industry more money, and the anime > trend has been strong for quite some time now. You're probably not > aware of it since you're not here, but there are even US-made > anime-style shows. And I do believe this trend has influenced the > broader spectrum somewhat. (I also believe our reality shows are > influenced by Japanese shows; some stuff I've seen on Fear Factor, for > example, is reminiscent of stuff on prime time Japanese shows.) FWIW, a whole pile of translated manga are showing up in the bookstores around here, and there's always a couple of teenagers clustered around intently purusing same. And yes, a couple of teenagers can cluster. Dan