Reproduce the shape of female genitals Distribute 3D data to fine sentence to defendant Supreme Court July 16 17:34
The Supreme Court sentenced the first and second trials to fines in a trial indicted by a cartoonist active under the pen name "Rokudenashiko" for distributing data that could reproduce the shape of female genitals with a 3D printer. , A part of the conviction was decided.
Megumi Igarashi, a cartoonist who works under the pen name of "Rokudenashiko" (48), used the 3D printer to distribute data that could reproduce the shape of a female genitals, and traced the crime of "obscenity distribution, etc." He was charged with displaying the work in an adult shop, and at the trial he accused him of being "part of an artistic activity."
The Tokyo High Court in the second instance found that the work was not guilty of displaying the work, and confirmed it, but the defendant filed a fine of 400,000 yen for distributing the 3D printer data.
"In spite of the fact that data contains artistic and ideological characteristics, it should not be considered to be obscene or not, even if the data include artistic and ideological characteristics," said 3D printer We have determined that the data is obscene.
After that, a fine of 400,000 yen was handed over after the first and second trials, and a judgment convicting part of the sentence was decided.
Defendant "Old stereotype, sorry for anachronistic judgment"
After the ruling, the defendants raised a piece of paper labeled "Unfair Judgment" outside the gates of the Supreme Court.
He said, "There was no content and it was a very unsatisfying judgment. "I'm sorry that I couldn't get rid of the old stereotype that "female genitals are obscene," and made an anachronistic decision."