Japan was the largest producer of child pornography in the world in 1998 (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, Poona Antaseeda, “Expert urges global law to end child pornography on the Internet,” Bangkok Post, 3 June 1998).

One thousand pornographic movies are produced in Japan every month, or 35 titles a day (according to Mitsuhiro Shimamura, Joseph Coleman, “Pornography ea