Ashley Daniels

While one of Kishi's associates, an editor/cartoonist, agreed to pay a fine of 500,000 yen, Kishi opted to go to trial and fight the charges — and in 2004, he was convicted and given a suspended sentence of one year in jail. Attorneys filed an appeal on behalf of Kishi, who wasn't the first person prosecuted under Japan's obscenity laws but the first person prosecuted in that country for selling sexually explicit cartoons.

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