Anger Against Injustice

Let's face it. The real reason major Japanese copyright holders want to issue copyright takedowns is because their country's Anti-Terrorism Bill criminalized copyright infringement and multiple minor offences that have almost nothing to do with organized crime. As a result, Japanese netizens have a good reason to be angry with their government over the criminalization of minor offences that have no relation with organized crime and other issues such as the multiple corruption scandals involved in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. In fact, there are people who were against the Olympics even before the pandemic came along and ignited further anti-Olympics sentiment in Japan, and as the pandemic wreaked havoc, the truth about the corruption involved in the Olympics was made known to the whole world.

Exposing the wrongdoings of Japan's armed forces during World War 2 is strictly prohibited in Japan, and Japanese netizens who call the denial of war crimes an act of suppressing freedom of expression are often shunned by the government just because they speak out the truth. Such people who get shunned for telling the truth about Japan's war crimes are also among the Japanese netizens who are angry with their government as well. And this anger gets even worse when an original work of art from two South Korean sculptors was put on display at an art exhibitionin Aichi Prefecture, only to get a cease and desist from people who do not want war crimes to be made known to the whole world. In other words, we are living in the last days of freedom of expression. Only a few people realize that disturbing truth, and they may have realized it too late...

Future of Japanese Freedom

Japan needs to be reminded that they owe their democracy to losing World War 2 to the United States and United Kingdom.

If you want to know the real reason behind the litigations taken by Nintendo and Square Enix against so-called acts of intellectual property piracy, which includes the counterfeiting of copyrighted trademarks that fan games are guilty of, keep in mind that the Japanese government included copyright infringement as one of the serious offences listed in their 2017 anti-terrorism bill. Then again, copyright infringement was already weaponized by terrorists for several years already, so it would make sense to include copyright infringement as one of the serious offences in an anti-terrorism bill. However, this would erode freedom of creativity, which proliferated as a result of the Fair Use Act and its equivalents. This anti-terrorism bill is not the only thing that is endangering the freedom of both Japanese and foreign net users.

Recently, the fury of anti-Olympics protesters in Tokyo was met with police brutality. This is not a good sign for Japanese people's freedoms. As if the current pandemic wasn't bad enough, Japanese people could lose more freedoms in the following days after the end of the Paralympics in Tokyo. Soon, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and freedom of creativity in Japan will be no more. The last time this happened was in the 1930s, prior to World War 2. In other words, the sun has set for the Japan that we all grew up with since the later Showa and early Heisei periods, and we will all be witnessing the second death of Japanese democracy...

Miyuki's Protest

In this comic, Miyuki is unhappy not because she does not like fanservice. She is unhappy about the Larry Nassar scandal that revealed a huge abuse scandal in USA Gymnastics as well as the mistreatment of homeless people in Tokyo by the police that is evicting them from the Olympic Games venues. That's why she is protesting against the injustices relating to the Olympics.

If you want to know why Miyuki is wearing Rosalina's leotard, that's because Rosalina does not wear her leotard from the Rio 2016 Edition of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games in the Tokyo 2020 Edition, and therefore, Miyuki can wear it. The reason Miyuki is holding a protest sign while wearing a leotard is because she stands in solidarity with gymnasts who had been victims of sexual abuse. Miyuki is also protesting against the injustices that nojukusha (Japanese slang for homeless people) are suffering from due to police brutality, which also led to the unlawful arrests of activists, one of whom goes by the name of A-san, whose arrest in 2016 for obstructing "official duties" was considered an unforgivable injustice.

Perhaps the Olympic torch relay was a mistake when it was first introduced, and the Olympic torch relay did not even originate from the Ancient Greeks that conceived the original ancient version of the Olympics at all. Yet another reason for the Olympics to be cancelled and abolished. For all the good intentions the Olympics promised, including peace, we had received almost nothing from it...

Update: The delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo has gone ahead as planned and concluded as scheduled. The campaign to cancel it was not successful.

#NOlympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is disrespecting the 80% of Japanese people who want the Tokyo Olympic Games cancelled or postponed. In fact, more than a third of Japanese would like the Olympics cancelled, even if the pestilence gets defeated by the time the Olympic Games begins. But we should not stop at cancelling the Tokyo Olympic Games. We should cancel all upcoming Olympic Games and abolish the Olympic Games altogether.

Currently, Japanese netizens are calling for not only their own countrymen, but people from other countries to boycott the Tokyo Olympic Games, whether there is any cancellation or not.

Even the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake survivors are saying that the Tokyo Olympic Games will not benefit them, and every single person from the Fukushima nuclear accident victims group that took part in a survey on their opinion on whether the Tokyo Olympic Games will rebuild the areas devastated by the 2011 earthquake said NO.

As a supporter of freedom, justice and liberty, I can only tell my Japanese readers to continue pushing on in the fight against corruption.

Update: The delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo has gone ahead as planned and concluded as scheduled. The campaign to cancel it was not successful.

Cancelympics

The current pandemic could lead to an Olympic Games getting cancelled for the first time since World War 2. But this is only if the pandemic gets worse. However, there are people who feel that the Olympics should have been cancelled altogether, especially when the Olympics failed in bringing peace and understanding through sports meetings. The failure of the Olympics to bring peace and understanding between peoples proved the Bible correct about "the way of peace they do not know." This is because there have been wars, genocides, pogroms, and cases of disrespect on a large scale in the years after the 1896 Olympics. In the case of the Rio 2016 Olympics, slum dwellers being made homeless for the sake of Rio de Janerio being an Olympic Games host city drew controversy. Recently, in the case of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the people who come from the parts of Japan that were devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami felt that the Olympics does not symbolise reconstruction in any way, and demanded that the Olympics should be cancelled amid the pandemic. Then we have the doping cases that result in athletes getting disqualified, resulting in hopes and dreams doomed to be dashed. So perhaps it would be better to not only cancel the Olympics, but abolish it so that other sports tournaments can get more attention.

Update: The delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo has gone ahead as planned and concluded as scheduled. The campaign to cancel it was not successful.

In need of a redesign

It's official. The Tokyo Olympic Games, along with the Euro Cup and Copa America, will be postponed to 2021 as a result of a devastating pandemic that not only killed tens of thousands, but forced many events to be either postponed or cancelled.

Speaking of the Olympic Games, the video games based on the greatest amateur sports event will need to be renamed, redesigned and relabeled in response to the postponement. So please, change the name and redesign the box art for the two video games, Sega.

Update: The delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo has gone ahead as planned, and it was concluded as scheduled. But the cover art for the video game adaptations of the Tokyo Olympic Games did not get a redesign.