{"id":69481,"date":"2025-02-14T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/14\/japan-porn-disposal-boxes-phased-out-internet-pornography"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:21:12","slug":"centrefolded-japans-porn-disposal-boxes-phased-out-amid-rise-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69481","title":{"rendered":"Centrefolded: Japan\u2019s \u2018porn disposal\u2019 boxes phased out amid rise of the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boxes served to protect the eyes of children from adult material littering the streets, but the shift online has seen their usefulness decline<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade Kazuhide Inoue has played an understated part in protecting the morals of adolescents in Fukuoka. Several times a year, the 73-year-old visits eight white \u201cpost boxes\u201d installed in the city in western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, turns a key and empties their contents. On a recent visit, his haul totalled 16 books and 81 DVDs in a single day.<\/p>\n<p>But the boxes are not drop-off points for rental shop customers: they are for the exclusive use of people \u2013 almost always men \u2013 who want to discreetly dispose of unwanted pornographic material that, if kept at home, could fall into the hands of unsuspecting children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/14\/japan-porn-disposal-boxes-phased-out-internet-pornography\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boxes served to protect the eyes of children from adult material littering the streets, but the shift online has seen their usefulness declineFor more than a decade Kazuhide Inoue has played an understated part in protecting the morals of adolescen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,811,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-pornography","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69482,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69481\/revisions\/69482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}