Missed It: Toyokazu Matsunaga Arrested Regarding Threats To Politician

The creator Toyokazu Matsunaga was apparently arrested by police October 29 in Amagasaki on suspicion of making threats to a local city councilor aligned with the Japan Resoration Party. Matsunaga is best known for the creation of the Bakune Young serial, which had an English-language iteration in the early '00s. The threat was a post on the political homepage of Takaaki Kubo during election season, which ended in June. The police have claimed the message originated from Matsunaga's personal computer even though it was anonymously posted.

The Japan Restoration Party is a political party formed in late 2012 with a right-wing, nationalist orientation. The threat seemed to reference that general orientation as well as the Osaka origins of the party. ANN did pick up a manga connection, even though none was explicit -- or even implicit, really -- in the threat: the party's co-founder supported a Tokyo ordinance that increased the number of publications that were restricted in sale due to content.
 
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