BTW, is Sega legally liable to comply with this character assassination? Or they do it because they don't want to be the guys who supported an actor with cocaine in his system?
BTW, is Sega legally liable to comply with this character assassination? Or they do it because they don't want to be the guys who supported an actor with cocaine in his system?
This isn't character assassination. Drug use is a massive taboo in Japan. Yes, people can point out the hypocrisy of it compared to social responses of other crimes, but when a celebrity in Japan is caught doing drugs, their careers are effectively over, and it can affect productions that they were involved with in the past.BTW, is Sega legally liable to comply with this character assassination? Or they do it because they don't want to be the guys who supported an actor with cocaine in his system?
BTW, is Sega legally liable to comply with this character assassination? Or they do it because they don't want to be the guys who supported an actor with cocaine in his system?
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I guess now you have to delete her from your life, and restage all your family photos with a look-alike actor.my aunt told me she did cocaine for a while in the 80's because everyone was doing it
This isn't character assassination. Drug use is a massive taboo in Japan. Yes, people can point out the hypocrisy of it compared to social responses of other crimes, but when a celebrity in Japan is caught doing drugs, their careers are effectively over, and it can affect productions that they were involved with in the past.
Lol right?
From the perspective of a culture that doesn't view drug use in the same way, yes.
Where do you live that the used prices for games at Book Off aren't near criminal?
I'm going out on a limb here, but cocaine is at least slightly more of an addictive substance than a greasy cheeseburger or alcohol.For some reason there's this idea that everyone that uses drugs is an addict.
Not everyone who eats a greasy cheeseburger or gets wasted once in a blue moon is an obese food addict or alcoholic and not everyone who does a line of coke is snorting daily.
Except in my experience the public in Asian countries are very much in favour of very, very harsh drug laws. In Singapore for example the general attitude is "using drugs? lock em up". Asian cultures are actually very, very conservative. Sex and drugs are big no-no's.
We still hang people for drug trafficking (when you traffick more than a certain amount of drugs, weight differs for different drugs). I believe we cane them too for those who don't traffick enough to get the death penalty. Honestly it's barbaric but most Singaporeans don't seem to have a problem with it because they think it won't happen to them.
Schools drill this into us by the time we are 10 or so. Drugs=jail, cane or death.
From the perspective of a culture that doesn't view drug use in the same way, yes.
But from the perspective of Japan, this is the normal. I agree that it shouldn't be, but this is the way things are now.
From the perspective of a culture that doesn't view drug use in the same way, yes.
But from the perspective of Japan, this is the normal. I agree that it shouldn't be, but this is the way things are now.
Uh, those arent as addictiveFor some reason there's this idea that everyone that uses drugs is an addict.
Not everyone who eats a greasy cheeseburger or gets wasted once in a blue moon is an obese food addict or alcoholic and not everyone who does a line of coke is snorting daily.
I'm going out on a limb here, but cocaine is at least slightly more of an addictive substance than a greasy cheeseburger or alcohol.
I'm going out on a limb here, but cocaine is at least slightly more of an addictive substance than a greasy cheeseburger or alcohol.
There have been various studies that kind of all flip flop on which substance is more addictive between alcohol and cocaine. Nicotine is up there too. Let's just say they're on par in terms of how addictive they are cause that's extremely hard to measure.
Is the East Asian attitude towards drugs more influenced by negative experiences during the opium wars or is it due to enhanced American influence in the region post WW2?
Lotta casual racism going on here...
SEGA are obliged to do this because that is what you do in Japanese culture. You publicly distance yourself from drug use (though it is pretty ironic in this case, considering that this is basically a Yakuza game!). SEGA conform to their own national culture, just as US companies would in the US or British companies would do in Britain, and whether or not you think it's wrong, or an overreaction, is irrelevant. In Japan, it is a BIG DEAL, and as a game publisher, they need to act, fast.
It's like how companies publicly distance themselves from sexual harassment and child pornography here in the west... well... at least outside of the fucked up video game industry anyway!
Little from Column A and a little from Column B. Plus Asian nations have historically had quite conservative attitudes in general, so it dovetails nicely into their current stance on drugs. Also add on the heavy implications with the Yakuza and their sheer, overwhelming presence throughout Japan (both historically and currently) and its not terribly surprising.
Is the East Asian attitude towards drugs more influenced by negative experiences during the opium wars or is it due to enhanced American influence in the region post WW2?
Malaysian here.
In general, even among the youth of the country who has no experience with the roots of the opium war's influence and the post-WW2 factors, I'd say that our upbringing that's rooted from those factors continue to be a facet of everyday Asian life.
Ever since I was a child, we were ingrained culturally, in education/family/etc - that drugs trafficking/usage are the among the greatest of sins one can commit. By the way, it's capital punishment here if you were caught owning or trafficking drugs. Mandatory death by hanging.
Ironically they guzzle alcohol like it's no man's business.
(Not that cocaine is something to sniff at.)
Lol it is kinda hypocritical that the Collector's Edition of Yakuza 6 included whiskey stones and that is a-OK to be associated with.
The lines we humans draw as society are so damn arbitrary and weird
People hand waving this as "well that's just the way they do things over there" or calling it casual racism seems a bit silly. If nobody points out or criticizes long held cultural relics that cause suffering on a large scale nothing would ever change.
I'm not agreeing with Japan's stance on drug use and possession, but whiskey is legal. Cocaine isn't. Even in America. You wouldn't see a compact mirror, razor blade and rolled up dollar bill included as part of a LE set.
I get that, my point is it's abitrary everywhere, more or less.
And yet Watsuki only got a minor fine for child porn possession and continues drawing manga.
The west doesn't even do that with sex pests.Im sorry but all i can think right now is, can you imagine if it worked like that on the western hemisphere, like if the star doing coke or drugs in general stopped movies from releasing it would be a wonder if we got one movie out in theaters per year.
No one's gonna argue that Japan doesn't have draconian drug laws, and the legal system has lacked awareness on child abuse and sexual assault (although this is changing for the better in recent years.) But "Japan cares more about drugs than sexual assault and pedophilia" could easily mean "Japan (and the people that make it up) is backwards," which is reductive and ethnocentric. Japanese sexual assault survivors certainly care. Japanese caretakers of children certainly care.It's racist to say Japan cares more about recreational drug use than sexual assault and pedophilia?
No one's gonna argue that Japan doesn't have draconian drug laws, and the legal system has lacked awareness on child abuse and sexual assault (although this is changing for the better in recent years.) But "Japan cares more about drugs than sexual assault and pedophilia" could easily mean "Japan (and the people that make it up) is backwards," which is reductive and ethnocentric. Japanese sexual assault survivors certainly care. Japanese caretakers of children certainly care.
One may simply be referring to the Japanese government or those in power when they say such things, but I've also heard these same arguments being used about other countries by people who want to put up a thin veneer of social consciousness, but really just wanna dunk on people different than them.