Japan Bans Child Porn, But Excludes Manga, Anime

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's parliament has passed a law which bans possession of child pornography, but excludes sexually explicit depictions of children in comics, animation and computer graphics. The upper house voted Wednesday to approve the legislation, which amends an earlier law that banned production and distribution of child pornography but not ownership of such materials. Japan is the last major industrial country to criminalize possession of child pornography, and had long faced calls to cra...