Japanese Rape Game: Campaign Launched

Equality Now has launched an international campaign calling on the Japanese government to ban RapeLay, a rape simulation game based on the repeated rape of two teenage girls and their mother.

The game, produced by Illusion Software, begins with the player molesting a 12-year-old schoolgirl on a train, before following her into a public toilet where he handcuffs and rapes her. The player must then keep her, her teenage sister and their mother prisoner and repeatedly rape and sexually assault them until they begin to ‘enjoy it’ and ‘beg their rapist to indulge them’. One online reviewer of the game said: “you have the illusion of a totally physical interaction with the girl. It’s the most realistic sex simulation ever seen.”

Sexual assault is very common in Japan: in 2005 the government introduced women-only carriages on their trains after a survey found that 64% of women in their 20s and 30s had been sexually assaulted on public transport in Tokyo. Despite ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1985, Japan only made child pornography illegal in 1999, and still permits the unregulated sale of videos of real gang rapes.

The Equality Now campaign has so far succeeded in having the game taken off Amazon Japan’s website, but is still campaigning to have RapeLay banned by the Japanese government.

For more information on Equality Now’s campaign click on the link: http://www.equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_3301_en.html

~ by colley on May 13, 2009.