Japan to tighten censorships laws on Manga cartoons

An amendment to youth welfare legislation set to go before the Tokyo Metropolitan General Assembly today could potentially ban all provocative visual depictions of “nonexistent minors”. The action is part of an attempt to crackdown on child pornography, but Japanese Manga artists and the online community have criticised lawmakers actions. They claim that such terms are open to interpretation, and would infringe on their freedom of expression.

South Koreans sue Japanese newspaper

A group of South Korean citizens have filed a lawsuit against a  Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, for what they claimed to be a misreport. A total of 1,886 people Thursday filed a suit against the paper for a report in July last year for misquoting President Lee Myung-bak. In the suit, they asked the daily to pay 4.11 million won in compensation and print a correction. Read more here