Reports: Doujinshi Artist Was Arrested For Publishing Obscene Manga
A wave of reports indicate that an illustrator named Masaya Miyashita was arrested in Matsuyama, Japan for distributing obscene manga through multiple bookstores. Thousands of copies of his doujinshi were confiscated at the time. By far the most thorough write-up, links and analysis, at least English-language, comes from Simon Jones. Jones also gets points with me for asking the first thing that popped into my mind, why this cartoonist and not so many others, and by pointing out how damaging such charges can be as they spread out into actions against people who had the nature of the job they were doing changed after the fact by an arrest.
