{"id":67303,"date":"2025-10-09T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67303\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:35:13","slug":"japans-ai-child-porn-loophole-exposed-by-football-executives-conviction-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67303\/","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 wave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1903,365,54163,363,364,54160,54154,54157,6147,5213,1221,54156,1759,54158,54159,54155,111,139,69,54161,145,54162,54164],"class_list":["post-67303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-abuse","tag-ai","tag-air-france","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-child-abuse","tag-child-porn","tag-child-pornography","tag-crime","tag-football","tag-france","tag-fujiko-yamada","tag-japan","tag-japan-football-association","tag-kanagawa-prefecture","tag-masanaga-kageyama","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pornography","tag-technology","tag-tsuneyasu-miyamoto","tag-yomiuri-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}