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- Laki Jones, Laki Jones.
Laki Jones, Laki Jones.
Laki Jones, we little
Laki Jones from Dunneui.
Laki Jones is an Australian YouTuber
and he’s one of these
sort of nuisance YouTubers,
and he’s decided to take
a unique path to fame.
Certainly works better than what I’m doing.
So me sitting here
peacefully reporting the
news instead of going
out and causing trouble.
I’m not famous, never gonna be famous.
I’m actually fine with that.
I don’t want this kind of fame.
He posted a YouTube video titled Suicide
Forest, Japan Part 2, Graveyard Flip.
I don’t, I don’t think I have to
say much more to be honest.
I think the title alone
tells you how gross
this guy’s thinking,
methodology, philosophy is.
He’s just like, what is a
gross awful thing I can do
that I’m not very likely
to get caught doing
and I’m gonna go do it and I’m gonna
film it and I’m gonna post it online.
And there will never be any consequences.
There are going to be consequences.
I’m not gonna happen quickly, but
there are gonna be consequences.
Japanese justice move slow, often
slower than I would like it to move.
In the most recent video, he
found a can of beer on a grave.
So families go to graves,
they leave stuff for them.
They leave food stacks and whatnot.
So this family’s left a can of beer.
And he flips a coin, I assume heads
drink the beer, tails leave it alone.
I bet it’s heads every time
’cause then he picks it up
and he cracks open the
beer and he drinks some of it.
And he decides to leave
cigarettes in its place,
which is interesting because he’s
like trying to balance the scales.
Like I took something but I left
something so therefore it must be okay.
But the whole point of
the family leaving the beer
is I’m assuming that guy
liked beer, there’s actually
nothing to indicate
that he liked cigarettes.
So leaving the cigarettes is actually,
yeah, it doesn’t sort of balance the scales.
You’ve taken something to the person likes
and maybe left something
that they don’t like.
Then in later, he took a rabbit figurine.
Now that one bothered me.
The beer didn’t bug me as much because
I’m assuming I’ve never looked into it,
but I’m assuming staff go
around and take the stuff
from the graves and
they dispose of it properly.
They probably just drained the beer.
I bet that beer was really gross.
‘Cause lately this week
has been the hottest week
for the third year in a
row in Japanese history.
So it’s like yesterday in Nagoya was
like 40 some degrees, 40 plus degrees.
So that is disgusting.
If you leave a beer outside on a grave,
I’m sure that beer doesn’t taste good.
So that’s probably why I
didn’t drink the whole thing.
It’s not gonna be cold and refreshing.
It’s gonna be really hot.
I bet that tin, the actual tin
itself was hot to the touch.
So that is gross, but then the figurine.
That is something that
obviously a child has left
for the person and you
taking it is disgusting.
I bet the staff wouldn’t take it.
I bet they would leave it there.
They might clean it, something like that.
But I bet it just gets left
there essentially forever.
You taking that is just the
most disgusting behavior.
This is theft.
So because it’s being left
out in the open and unguarded,
he’s thinking it’s like,
oh, well, it’s free rain.
This doesn’t sound like it’s
in the suicide forest though.
This is just going to graves essentially,
the titles on the internet
were all grave robbing,
which is a little different feeling
from what he’s actually doing.
He’s taking offerings to the dead.
So if you want accurate titling,
I think they should go that way.
I have criticisms about the media
because they do clickbake titles,
but then when I’ve done
clickbake titles on my YouTube
channel, it actually has
gotten away more views.
So I’m like, I understand why they do it.
It’s still wrong though.
Currently what he’s doing.
So like I said, the he thinks there’s
not gonna be into consequences.
Currently what he’s doing is posting clips
on TikTok and YouTube
shorts and stuff like that,
making fun of the people
who are doing things
like this, saying
what he’s doing is bad.
So there’s been a lot of Japanese backlash.
They’re like this guy’s grave robbing.
This guy stealing stuff.
This is disrespectful to Japanese culture.
All fairly true.
Again, the grave robbing
isn’t the right English word.
I don’t know what the Japanese word is
’cause there’s a word I’ve never
had to look up and/or use in Japanese.
I’m really tempted to do it now,
but I don’t want to take up the time.
The little rabbit figurine
to me was the line.
Like he was already doing something bad.
This is a line you cannot uncross.
So now you’ve committed theft of something
that is sentimental,
that is real to a person,
that someone did on
purposefully, on purpose,
to try to make, to send
a message maybe to this
dead person or the
world, the world at large.
Something is gonna happen.
And so now the Japanese
police are probably gonna start
monitoring his channel ’cause
there’s been a big backlash online.
I would be guessing that again
they’re not gonna do much.
They might like take him
and hold him and talk to him
for a couple months and
then like cut off his visa.
Months like they do with Johnny Simali.
So Johnny Simali was
held for a couple months.
He was released but then
had to leave the country.
He left the country and I’m
assuming he’s just been banned
from re-entry, he’s just
not allowed back in Japan.
They don’t want to take the
time to arrest these people
and put them in jail because
they don’t want to have
the burden on the Japanese penal system
to actually pay to house these people.
South Korea in the Johnny Simali though,
they’re actually looking at right now,
it’s like 30, 40 charges
totaling about 20, 30 years.
Like it’s eight charges
with a bunch of sub charges
and he’s looking at like
30 to 40 years in prison.
If he gets the maximum
which he probably won’t.
But the minimum he’s looking at right now
seems to be about five
years in actual prison
in a Korean prison,
which by understanding is
prisons are bad, Korean
prisons are also really bad.
I saw an anime movie where
the alcoholic homeless character
thanks the gods and
ancestors for helping
him and drains the
sake left in a graveyard.
So there are also those big
fires at the new years at temples.
The difference between
the anime you’re talking about
and this guy is he’s filming
it and putting it on you
to purposefully to show
he’s behaving badly.
Where that guy’s just again, he’s just
an alcoholic doing an alcoholic to do.
He’s not gonna film it and put it
online so there’s any evidence of it.
So people would be like, it disappeared.
It disappears anyways.
Again, people come and
take stuff from the graves
and throw their way ’cause they
don’t need stuff to sitting there.
There’s a lot of people leave
like oranges and fruit and stuff.
And once it gets not fresh and rotten,
they don’t want rotten fruit sitting there.
So it gets removed.
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So about a year ago we did a
story and it was a Chinese translator.
So NHK has a radio show.
It has it in Chinese and Korean.
So they have people
come on and they do the
same show that was done
in Japanese and Chinese.
They do the same show that was done
in Japanese and Korean things like that.
The Chinese translator
announcer kinda went rogue.
And at first I thought,
ah, you know, big deal.
He just basically started
speaking his opinion.
But NHK is a national show.
It’s like run by the Japanese government.
So making anti-Japanese
statements on this Japanese
run, essentially government
media is a mistake.
But since we hadn’t heard
anything, so we had a guy quit his job,
but then was rehired later,
which is a very suspicious
thing, to kind of apologize
for this happening.
That guy was fired.
I thought he’s fired.
That’s enough.
He’s lost his job.
Now, Japanese government can’t let it go.
They sent it to prosecutors.
He said, so the things that
have gotten him in trouble.
He said in his show that the Senkaku Islands,
so these are islands south of Okinawa.
They’re in dispute, so Japan
says they own them, and
then China says they own
them, so there’s a disagreement.
He said that these islands belong to China.
He also said, don’t forget the Nanjing
massacre, which I technically agree with.
I don’t think this was the
format to promote that idea.
And he said, also don’t forget
about the comfort women,
the issue in China and Korea
during the end of World War II.
So he said, three, what
would be considered
inflammatory statements on
a state run media broadcast?
Essentially defiling the state run media.
Again, whether you agree with it or
not, it’s irrelevant, he did do that thing.
So they are charging him,
he has to pay 11 million yen.
So you could break it down
how many yen per statement,
so I bet it would be like
six for the Senkaku Islands,
and then two and two, I
don’t know something like that.
That only adds up to 10.
Seven for the Senkaku Islands.
I gotta learn to do my math.
So if you ever get a job and
you decide you wanna go rogue,
just be aware of how much
it could end up costing you.
If you’re successful, I don’t
know actually how to say that.
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We also did a story last month,
so there was this manga came out,
and the manga was, this lady has dreams,
and she turned her dreams into manga,
and she predicted a big
earthquake in Fukushima,
and she was talking about
how devastating it was
in the dream, and it was fairly
accurate, and then so she has a follow up,
and she predicted that there
was going to be an earthquake
last month in Japan, and
so tourism dropped to Japan,
from primarily Hong
Kong, what was the cities?
Taiwan, Korea, and
China, but Hong Kong
specifically, they actually
mentioned by name,
a lot of tourists stopped coming
from those places to Japan,
and they’re saying it was
because of this manga.
She was saying that in July,
there would be a massive
earthquake around the 15th,
but then nothing happened.
Now, there was an earthquake
way out in the ocean,
on the 30th, and it did have
an earthquake warning here.
I didn’t feel anything, but I
think some other places had
a small tsunami or a small
ways, but it wasn’t of the caliber
of the Fukushima
earthquake and disaster in
tsunami and all that
stuff that happened there.
Flights that were removed before July because
they were empty have not been replaced.
So this comic with a
prediction that did not come true
has negatively impacted
tourism beyond the prediction,
which I’m finding that is a really weird
thing, ’cause if you believe in predictions,
well, this would be your first
chance to have a thought like,
hey, maybe predictions
aren’t necessarily accurate,
’cause I could predict
today that there will be an
earthquake at some
point in the future in Japan,
and that would be accurate
as long as I wasn’t specific,
’cause earthquake suffers from,
’cause Japan suffers from earthquakes,
getting a lot of my words
to selectively mix up here.
Japan suffers from earthquake.
So if I said, Japan will have an
earthquake in this month on this date,
and there was an earthquake
anywhere around that time,
these people would say, oh,
wow, that’s really accurate.
You really did a good job.
earthquakes do suffer from
Japan keeps getting in the way
of the earthquakes,
that’s actually the problem.
But this would be the
chance for those kind of people
to go like, hey, this
prediction was inaccurate,
maybe I shouldn’t be
making my tourism decisions
based on predictions based on dreams a woman
had, and then it’s turned into a manga.
There is also the secondary issue of,
if these people now go and make a trip,
and there is an earthquake
while they’re on their trip,
they might actually still
connect it to the prediction
which was made like, oh,
we should have listened,
but that would actually mean
no one ever travels again.
Like, I don’t know what
the solution here is,
’cause really the solution
is don’t believe predictions,
but also you could
look at the place you’re
going and like, how
often do the earthquakes,
how big are the earthquakes,
how regular are earthquakes,
and then you could make like a reason
decision, which would be way better.
You still might get hit by an earthquake.
There’s, again, no real way to predict it.
That’s one of the things
science happens figured out yet.
But, just the same, I would rather make a
decision based on facts than a prediction,
and then find out the
prediction’s not true,
and now I’ve just wasted a
great opportunity for a trip.
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There is a website called Maricari,
and what they do is you sell used stuff,
so I have some used headphones, I
wanna sell this microphone, let’s say,
it still works, it’s still functional,
I can put it up on Maricari.
I can sell it, it’s like
eBay, but for Japan.
Currently, you can find ultrasound photos
that range from three
to 6,000 yen on Maricari,
and there was a pack
of five with a fetus
visible for 999 yen,
and from September 1st.
Oh, from yesterday.
These images, these ultrasound
photos are going to be removed.
They’re gonna be subject to removal.
So if I tried to take an ultrasound photo
and put it on Maricari and try to sell it,
that will get taken down
and I’m not allowed to sell it.
And people are like, why
are you selling these things?
Like some people were
like trying to justify it,
but it turns out what happens is
you wanna scare your boyfriend,
you wanna scare your husband, you
wanna have like a pregnancy threat
or confrontation of some sort, you
can actually claim to be pregnant,
you can buy a legitimate, doctored
ultrasound photo, and they’ll send it to you,
and then you can present it to your
boyfriend, you can set it to your husband.
You’re the mistress and
you’re cheating with a
man who’s married and
you can say like, look,
you got me pregnant,
you should divorce your
wife and then be with
me, that kind of thing.
Basically, there’s that.
And then there’s also the papa katsu.
So papa katsu is when a
young woman dates an old
man and he pays her
money and then she can say,
look, we’ve had sex, you’ve got me
pregnant, you have to pay for the abortion,
abortions are incredibly
expensive in Japan,
you have to pay for this,
you have to pay for that,
you have to give me like one, two,
three million yen to make this go away.
But that’s actually what a
lot of these girls are doing,
is what they’re doing
is they’re doing the
papa katsu and then
they’re adding to the scam.
So I’m trying to make this
man feel something for me,
feel responsible and then
I pretend to be pregnant
and then I get the money
for an abortion and then I
don’t have an abortion,
but I get to keep the money.
And that’s all tax-free income, I guess.
Because these things have now
been linked to shady practices,
they are no longer allowed
to be sold on Maricari.
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Total, the toilet company.
I don’t think they get enough credit.
They are like, not, I don’t
know if they’re in the inventor
of the bidet, but they are the ones who
have refined the toilet experience in Japan.
They have the bidets,
the controls, the sounds,
the perfumes, all the things that happen
in a toilet, they can be sort of magical.
They happen in a toteau
toilet and you go to public
urinals and stuff, and
most of them are toteau.
Toteau is actually a really big company.
They have a service where
it’s mainly for maintenance
workers and it’s, I can
check on my phone,
let’s say I work in a
big building, it’s like 16
floors and it’ll tell me
that toilet is clocked.
It’ll be tell me a toilet
is not functioning.
It will can tell me a toilet is being used
because there is pressure on the seat.
It can tell me a lot of information.
So there’s not like a camera
watching you go to the toilet.
It’s actually like
someone’s using a toilet.
All it would tell me is that
indicate that this toilet is being used.
As a maintenance
worker, that’s very useful.
I don’t have to go check
every floor, every toilet.
I can just go to the ninth
floor, find the toilet is clogged
and then I can unclog it, I can do my
job and it’ll be more efficient overall.
So that’s a great service.
Then they had an idea.
They’re like, we could open this up.
We could connect more
toilets to this service
and make this a public
service so that I, as a tourist
or a passenger, could go around public
places, public stations that are using Toto.
Apparently this is Zuka
Circuit, noise button,
has a race car sound
and I just love it.
I actually really like that idea too
because it’s thematically appropriate.
In my gym where I go to judo,
there’s a button that will make sound.
So I thought it would be
like, usually it’s actually
just a flushing sound that’s
continuous, which is fine.
You don’t really think about it.
Sometimes it’s music and stuff.
The one in my toilet
in the judo dojo is bird’s
chirping, which I don’t
know how I feel about that.
It’s not better ’cause it
could be chirp, chirp, chirp,
and then chirp, I don’t know
if it really covers the sound.
So much is blends in with the sound.
Maybe it’s what they were trying to do.
It’s all natural.
What they wanted to do
was open up this service
so that I as a public member
could now get my phone out,
look at my phone and
say, hey, I need the toilet.
Maybe there are a couple of toilets available
in the building, but this one is full.
It’s really busy ’cause like the train
just got, just let out a bunch of people.
And so that toilet is full,
but this toilet over here,
it’d be worth the walk to go to that
toilet ’cause I know it’s empty right now.
And I was kind of
mind blown by this as an
idea because why isn’t
this already a thing?
Well, Toto, of course, came up
with it and they’re making it available.
It will also tell you if the
specialty needs, so like
if it has wheelchair access
and a baby changing station.
So I’m with my baby.
I need to change my baby.
I would know.
This toilet would be useful for that.
This toilet’s empty.
This toilet’s not, doesn’t have a baby
changing station, so I can’t use that one.
That’s problematic.
I mean, is this a super gate service?
It’s one of those things.
We don’t think about
pooping as being a service
that needs to be taken care of too much
because we just go hunting for toilets,
but imagine that moment when
you need a toilet, you need a toilet.
You do not wanna be hunting for the toilet.
Now that toilet’s available
to you, that would be great.
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In Nagoya, a statue of
a 16th century warrior
named Totomi Hideyoshi
has been beheaded.
I don’t know why I find that funny.
I think it’s ’cause he was a warrior
and someone decided to behead him
is already kind of just
fundamentally amusing
to me, but it, basically
you have a statue.
And I thought, oh man, a
bronze statue or a metal
statue must be really
hard to cut the head off.
It’s actually a reinforced plastic,
and I didn’t even think that
statues would be something like that.
So I actually learned a little
bit more about the statue.
It’s a form of reinforced plastic, and the
local city is considering a damage report
with the police, but
don’t consider it do it.
I mean, someone cut
the head off your statue.
The other thing though
is when they catch the
guy, I wanna know what
he did with the head.
I’m hoping he didn’t
just throw the head away.
I hope they actually go to his house,
search his house, and like the
head is on top of a mannequin,
where he’s just using the head,
and he’s like dug out the middle,
and he’s using his like a
cookie jar or something.
Like I hope he’s done something
fundamentally interesting and useful.
Vandals don’t tend to be as
creative as I would like them to be,
because if I had the head that I’d stolen
off a statue, I would be using that head.
I would mount it on the front of my car,
wouldn’t actually do that ’cause I’d
get caught really quickly and get arrested.
But in my house, I might like
put it on top of the microphone.
I might put it in the
background so you could
actually see the
head, that kind of thing.
I think that would be really interesting.
I just really wanna know what
happened to this guy’s head.
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- Japan Post is refusing
certain packages going to the US.
Now this would initially you would
assume be because of the tariffs,
and it’s not actually
because of the tariffs.
They have like a system in
place that you can mail stuff
to other countries, and they
basically try to simplify the system.
If you are a good country, and I am a good
country, and we are friendly countries,
then we can send packages to
each other without too much trouble.
America in their infinite
wisdom under the Trump
administration has decided
that’s not cool anymore.
They’ve decided that you
can’t just send countries
what you have to do is submit
a customs declaration form
and pay customs to
the US border to control.
So this would actually
put a burden on Japan Post.
So I, as a person, wanna send
you, as my friend, a present.
If that present is over $100, it needs
a declaration form of what’s inside.
It needs a declaration form
to say it’s not being sold
because then it would
actually include the tariffs,
but let’s say I’m just sending
you a present, it’s $120.
So I try to send that to you, I can’t do it
because Japan Post would
then have to pay extra money.
They don’t know how much
that extra money’s going to be
because the Trump
administration is really bad at its job.
So they’re not capable of telling anyone
how this system is
actually supposed to work.
So they’ve basically done what
they’ve done a bunch of times.
Now, put something in place
and made it really unclear
what the rules are, and so Japan Post
is just like, we’re not taking the risk,
we don’t wanna send
a bunch of packages to
America, and then they
start charging us money.
Money that we can’t turn
around and discharge the customer
because the customer’s
already paid for the stamps,
they’ve already paid for
the way to the package,
going back and finding them to
get more would be unreasonable.
So their reasonable action for Japan
Post is to just not send mail to America.
So this is going to be for gifts over
$100 and selling anything overseas.
The selling part could
actually include the tariffs,
but the primary issue
here isn’t the tariffs,
it’s actually that the
system isn’t clear enough.
Japan Post issued a statement saying,
“The system isn’t clear
and implementation is difficult.
” When a Japanese entity,
a person, or a company,
or something says
something is difficult,
what they actually mean
is it’s fucking impossible.
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Two weeks ago, we did a
story and the story was about
how happy meals in Japan
included a Pokemon card,
and that Pokemon card caused
the scalpers and collectors
to just flood into McDonald’s, and
by as many happy meals as they could,
and then take the cards out,
and just leave the happy meals,
sometimes on the counter, so
they would actually get their food,
pull the card out, and then walk away,
or they would, the staff would get angry
and say like, take your
food with you, they’d take
it outside and just leave
it on the ground outside.
This caused a huge amount of food waste,
which is really, really a
social full pond in Japan.
This caused a huge amount of issues with
the amount of garbage they were creating,
but also meant the kids who
legitimately wanted to buy a
happy meal and get a card
didn’t get the cards they wanted.
McDonald’s apologized for
this, and I actually, this is
one of those things, it’s
not really McDonald’s fault,
it’s the scalpers fault for trying to
buy everything, and then resell it online.
The next plan was for a one-piece
happy meal to be released in Japan.
That has been delayed because
of the previous Pokemon issue.
So the Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency
instructed McDonald’s to improve its
sales practices and reduce food waste.
So again, you’re giving out
these cards with the meal,
that’s fine, but the meal is just being
thrown away, that’s not acceptable.
Japan, McDonald’s is actually
saying, “Yeah, we’re really apologetic,
“we’re going to try
to find a way to fix this,
“so we’re not going
to do another promotion
“in this way until we
have a plan worked in place.
” So they were talking about
you can only buy five meals.
So the thing is, if I have six kids with
me and I wanna buy a meal for each,
I actually individually
couldn’t, but I guess if you
could see six kids, you
could buy one meal per kid,
’cause then the scalpers
would have to get multiple kids.
So you make it one per customer
person standing in front of you.
And that would be okay,
’cause that means a scammer,
a scalper, whatever would come in,
they buy one meal, they could only buy one.
They’d have to go to multiple McDonald’s,
but it would be before what
they actually limited it five.
Because again, it’s
really hard to say like,
you’re not allowed to buy five
happy meals seems also wrong
because I might have four kids at home
and I want one for myself or something.
There’s legitimate customers
who want more than five meals.
The scalpers are trying
to get as many as they can.
So there’s no way to balance out
the system so it works for both entities.
I think it’s the issue.
There’s been no decision made
yet, but they are rescheduling,
but it actually seems like
they might not be doing it at all
until they can figure
out a way to stop the
people from coming in
and buying all the things
just to get the toy or the card or whatever’s
in it and then just junking the food.
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This is a story that
popped up a bunch of times.
There’s a city in Ichi called Toya Agai,
and what they want to do is impose a limit
on smartphone and other
electronic devices use, limiting
it to two hours a night,
this will be an ordinance.
So it’s kind of a law,
but it’s one of those
laws that doesn’t actually
have any punishment.
So how are you supposed
to impose or enforce this?
This is one of those problems
that never actually gets
taken up in Japan because
there’s no way to enforce it.
Like you’re not allowed to come in my
house and tell me to stop using my phone.
You’re actually, how do you judge
how much I can use my phone?
Because I’m actually using
my phone as a camera right now.
That’s 30, 40 minutes of usage time,
but I’m not actually taking in media
or like scrolling dead
scrolling TikTok or something.
So is that fair to limit that time to me?
But then there’s also no punishment.
So if I break it and I like scrolling
my phone for six hours straight,
the police aren’t gonna come into
my house and take away my phone.
What they’re trying to do is promote
healthy living, and I think that’s fine,
but an ordinance that is completely
and effectual doesn’t do anything.
So I think this really is one of
those lame government attempts.
It actually might be the new story itself.
Now that I’m talking about it out loud,
the fact that I’m talking
about it means I’m aware of it,
I’m talking to you about
it, maybe you’re aware of it.
If we’re more aware of
it, maybe we will be slightly
more likely to spend
less time on our phone.
Maybe?
I mean, I don’t think so.
My phone usage patterns
are pretty much set.
My kids’ phone usage
patterns are pretty much set.
I’m pretty sure they’re sneaking time
when I’m not around that kind of stuff.
But at the end of the
day, I’ve done my best.
But that’s again because
I’m a conscious parent.
There’s a lot of parents who
are not going to let them use them.
But then those parents are
going to stop their kids anyway.
So the ordinance doesn’t do anything.
And those parents are probably not
watching the news or reading the news.
They want to say the kids have a 9 p.m.
time limit.
And junior high school
kids, it’s 10 o’clock.
But again, how are you
supposed to impose that?
If you can’t come into
other people’s houses.
If the parents aren’t willing to do it,
I don’t see how you’re supposed
to be able to do anything.
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The founder of FC2–
now, if you don’t know
what FC2 is, you don’t
know Japanese port.
FC2 was a website where
people with certain predilections
towards the Asian flavor
of adult entertainment
could go and get some uncensored
versions of the same videos
they might be partaking
in or enjoying in Japan.
The problem is, uncensored
videos are illegal in Japan.
Back in 2013, this website was shut down.
So we’re talking like this has been
going on for more than a decade.
He was arrested and
he was charged with the
illegal distribution of
uncensored pornography.
The prosecution wanted
three years in prison and 2.
5 million yen.
I’ll tell you this right now.
That website made way
more than 2.5 million yen.
2.5 million yen is a drop in a bucket.
The three years in prison,
that would have been significant.
But the 2.5 million yen fiscal punishment?
That wouldn’t amend anything to FC2.
I’m sure it was making way,
way more money than that.
The founder, Takashi, he
pled guilty and he claimed
because he lived in the
state since he was a child.
He didn’t know that uncensored
porn was illegal in Japan.
So this guy, Japanese
heritage, born in Japan,
raised in the US for a
while, came back to Japan,
started a website called FC2,
where he would get uncensored porn.
So he knew, like he knew
there was censored porn going,
if you’re in the porn industry, you
know what the other websites are doing?
Like, that’s a given.
Like, I work in my industry, I
know what the other companies
in my industry are doing to
a degree just because I’m like,
how different or how similar is it to what
I’m doing, just so I know what’s going on.
I’m not even like a
high level person in my
company, but I still
know what’s going on.
So he claims that he was living
in Japan, hosting an adult website,
not knowing that uncensored
adult videos were illegal
in Japan, which is just
the chef’s kiss of excuses.
Like, it’s like, oh, I grew up in America.
I did know I’m sorry.
Except the judge took it.
The judge is like, he’s
showed that he’s remorseful
for his actions, that
he won’t do it again.
So he’s going to get
the 2.5 million yen fine,
which as I said, it’s a drop
in the bucket that probably
is nothing for the amount of
money he made on that website.
The 3-year prison term is
being suspended for 5 years.
So if he doesn’t get
in trouble for the next 5
years, he’s actually
not going to go to prison.
He’s just going to pay this.
What I’ve considered to be a nominal fine.
He is vowed to never do it again.
But again, I’m actually betting
he’s made enough money
that he could just
live the rest of his life
pretty normally, not
actually work ever again.
And so, yeah, why would he do it again?
He’ll just like live off the funds he made
off FC2, hosting Uncensored Pornography.
And they say that crime doesn’t pay.
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