Such a good book too. It was my introduction into the mad world of transgenderism and it really opened my eyes to the harm it was doing.

The land of cartoon child pornography wants to say something about harm?

"Since we can't refute the author's findings and conclusions without resorting to circular reasoning and logical fallacies, we'll just silence her. Problem solved." Rinse and repeat. Ugh.

I saw some of the Twitter usual suspects starting a fuss about this earlier this week - extremely disappointed to hear that they capitulated to pressure that largely seemed non-Japanese and extremely online in origin.

I shouldn't feel so disappointed in Japan, but since Japan is still patriarchal, it doesn't surprise me.

Well, misogyny is still quite rampant in Japan, so they probably just needed any excuse to limit the spreading of the knowledge about women's oppression.

The first person murdered by those pushing the 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie was a man named Hitoshi Igarashi.

He had been hired to translate Rushdie's Satanic Verses into Japanese.

But Japan keeps Tick Tacky under a tight leash. Are they expecting head pats from WEY or gaslighting western countries.

This is surprising to me. Japan is pretty “behind” on LGBTQ issues, being the only G7 country to not have legalized gay marriage, among other things.

Although, come to think of it, when it comes to porn, feminization, and things like pedophilia Japan has always had a looser grip on things like that… so I imagine that trans porn and the like can get a grip there in a way that TRAs can’t, at least not publicly. I mean it’s the birthplace of the “futanari” porn. Still Japan is kind of well known for not “catering” to western tastes and ideals, so I’m still surprised.

The insane power of the crazies on Twitter continues.

ETA: Japan also seems to have more of an emphasis on company reputation from what I understand, so I guess it’s not that surprisingly a publisher wouldn’t want to associate with a controversial book, regardless of the topic. Still infuriating

Considering what happened to the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses, this isn't surprising. They have genuine reason to fear that a TIM might harm any Japanese people who work on localizing that book

If they caved due to pressure, we need to put the pressure back on to publish. They think they’re doing what the public wants, but when they’re actually capitulating to an extremist minority. Anyone here speak Japanese that can email them? Or know people who speak Japanese?