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Japan on Wednesday finally fell 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.
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2/20
The upper house of parliament voted overwhelmingly for a bill revising laws under which only the production and distribution of child pornography had been banned.
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The legislation cleared the lower house earlier this month.
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4/20
Campaigners had long urged Japan to toughen its stance on child pornography, complaining it was a major source of the material for global markets.
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The new legislation bans possession of photographs and videos depicting real children aged below 18, but it does not include drawings or digitally-created imagery.
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