{"id":288026,"date":"2025-10-09T01:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:54:10","slug":"japans-ai-child-porn-loophole-exposed-by-football-executives-conviction-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288026\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s AI child porn loophole exposed by football executive\u2019s conviction abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Japanese football executive\u2019s conviction in France for viewing AI-generated child abuse images has triggered a wave of national soul-searching and renewed demands for <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/japan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Japan<\/a> to close legal loopholes that critics say are fuelling the proliferation of hyperrealistic exploitative imagery online.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Masanaga Kageyama, the Japan Football Association\u2019s former technical director, was handed an 18-month suspended prison sentence by a French court on Monday after he was caught watching sexually explicit images of a child on a flight to Paris.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 58-year-old official, who was en route to the Fifa Under-20 World Cup in Chile, was arrested upon arrival at Charles de Gaulle Airport on October 2, following a report from an Air France flight attendant in business class who witnessed him viewing the material on his personal tablet.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kageyama admitted in court to viewing the images and said he was \u201cashamed\u201d, but claimed he was unaware that accessing AI-generated child abuse imagery was a criminal offence under French law.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He maintained that the images formed part of an art project and could not be considered pornographic as they were generated by artificial intelligence, Agence France-Presse reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Any pornographic depiction of minors, whether real, fictional or computer-generated, are explicitly criminalised under French law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior Japanese football executive\u2019s conviction in France for viewing AI-generated child abuse images has triggered a 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