[/floatl]Yomiuri: Public center says no to erotic comic eventThe "abnormal carnival" will no longer be held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center in Taito Ward, as the public corporation that owns the center said the event's pornographic content is not suitable for such a public facility, it was learned Monday. The center had been used six times for the event, at which more than 100 groups displayed manga fanzines or "dojinshi." The Tokyo Metropolitan Small Business Center, which owns the facility, said it had been told by the organizer that the carnival was simply for the sale and exhibition of dojinshi. But a center official discovered a Web site that showed the comics sold and displayed at the event depicting sexual acts with children and other bizarre acts. As such, the center told the carnival organizer that it could no longer use the facility.
