A man walks past an anime shop in Tokyo. Those shops will remain legal in Japan even though child pornography was banned on Wednesday. Getty Images TOKYO — Japan’s parliament has passed a law which ...

Production and distribution of child pornography has been illegal in Japan for 15 years, but the possession of it is not. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to ban possession and the law ...

Japan has edged closer to banning the possession of child pornography, the last major developed country to do so, but paedophilia portrayed in the country's popular anime comics will be exempt. Japan ...

Japan has finally enforced a ban on the possession of child sex abuse images after years of pressure. The law, passed by the Japanese Diet last year, means anyone caught with child sex abuse images ...

Japan’s parliament passed a bill Wednesday to ban the possession of child pornography. Under the new law, people found with explicit photos or video of children can be imprisoned for up to one year ...