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To some degree, the sexualization of young girls is mainstream in Japan. For example, Japan’s most pop
ular and mega-profitable all-female pop group AKB48 includes members as young as 13; and they’ve posed
for ++sexy & semi-nude layouts in Japan’s Weekly Playboy several times. (Weekly Playboy, which began
in 1966 in Japan, has no relation to Playboy magazine).
The AKB48 members are bound by their contracts to remain celibate while working for the parent company
that manages the group, but they often appear in lurid commercials and videos depicting the band membe
rs exchanging kisses and singing sexually suggestive lyrics.
According to the May 30, 2013, issue of the weekly magazine Shukan Shincho, and police sources, one of
the founders of the group was associated with the Goto-gumi, a yakuza group that was involved in human
trafficking and child pornography production. The general producer of AKB48, Yasushi Akimoto is a board
member of The Tokyo Organizing Committee for the 2020 Olympics (sometimes called the Yakuza Olympmics)
. There has been some criticism of his selection for the committee.
Swimsuit shots of underage AKB48 girls “won’t fall under the law,” says Fukuda. “As long as it's no
t a really obscene pose or something in a form which deliberately causes sexual arousal, it is not chil
d pornography. If it's just normal swimwear it's not deliberately obscene.”
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