Discussion History Main / VindicatedByHistory

The section on Japan included a lot of purported examples that were not actually examples of works being \\\"Banned in X,\\\" but were rather just examples of the distributor/publisher deciding that it would not sell the work in Japan. Some were explicitly marked as such, while some misleadingly implied the existence of an official ban. In either case, the examples were off-topic. For any given country, there are literally thousands of works published abroad every year that happen not to be translated and sold in that country; that doesn\\\'t make those thousands of works \\\"banned\\\" in that country. Yes, the movie and TV examples previously here may have been left out of Japanese distribution in many cases more deliberately than other works, but it still makes no sense to say that the publisher \\\"banned\\\" its own product; a \\\"ban\\\" implies some sort of external body making the prohibition, generally governmental. I\\\'ve left the video game examples in, with some modification, as, though they are not subject to prohibition by the government, there is at least some organization besides just the publisher making the decision.

I\\\'ve also added in true examples of \\\"Banned in Japan,\\\" namely, \\\'\\\'Lady Chatterley\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'The Bells of Nagasaki\\\'\\\'. There are other examples, such as a local school board banning \\\'\\\'Barefoot Gen\\\'\\\', which could probably be added, as well.

The entry saying \\\"Creator/AliceSoft has banned the sale of \\\'\\\'Daiteikoku\\\'\\\' outside of Japan due to its political(ly incorrect) nature.\\\" was also completely off-topic. This is \\\"Banned in China,\\\" not \\\"Banned Everywhere Except China\\\"! (And that\\\'s also another example of a \\\"ban\\\" that\\\'s not actually a ban.)

I checked the Japanese web site for The Simpsons Movie, and all the hands had the requisite four fingers, so editing of that trope does not seem to be universal, let alone there being any officially-imposed ban.