TOKYO: Japan has finally fallen into line with other major developed countries and made the possession of child pornography illegal, but the sometimes graphic images of paedophilia in manga comic books remain legal.
The upper house of parliament yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a Bill revising laws under which only the production and distribution of child pornography had been banned.
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