Koda Kumi’s Pedo Dance Extravaganza!

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If anyone is a hypocrite, it’s you. You’re more racist than any American I know. Use your brain and stop being so emotional like a little girl.

Wow, so funny. I live in New York, in the Queens Boro and in my area lately there have been a large amount of Japanese coming here to move. There is this small shop near my home and they sell all the latest foods from Japan and tapes of TV shows, just last week my friend and I watched this (not all the way through but a bit of it because we heard the theme to the Cutey Honey Movie). It’s so funny that it was a bunch of kids! See I wasn’t there to hear the voices, I could’ve sworn they were backup dancers XD!

relax people its just a bunch of cute girls having fun

A man asked a surgeon to cut his leg of because he thought it, would make him more sexually attractive. Surgeon was sued for satisfying this mans request, however he was left free after presenting following argument: “If cutting male sexual organ for the purpose of changing sex (which is meant to improve person’s perception of himself as sexually attractive ) is legal and normal, then there is nothing wrong with my actions”. Its all about what we mean by “sexually”, “sexuality “ like tattoos all over body, piercing, wearing few or no clothes e.t.c can be perceived as sexual or disgusting or usual or whatever really. It depends. For me this video did not possess anything possibly sexual, but for someone it will.
P.S.I should however mention that there are a lot of pedophiles, rapist and predators in Japan, and numbers do increase.

James,
I’m with you on this. The dances themselves weren’t so bad, but the idea behind the show, the pop idol who was being held up for young girls to imitiate, and the comments made were all out of line.
I also think it’s bizarre of people to suggest that pretty much anything is OK in the name of cultural differences. Since when does mainstream Japanese culture condone the exploitation of children? Does it exist? Of course. Is it more widespread, or at least more noticeable here than in the West? Absolutely. Do most Japanese adults think it’s OK? A definitive NO. Of course they don’t.

Some of the assertions above were just plain funny. OK, first, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera were in their late teens when they became pop stars. Anyone who doesn’t think there’s a world of difference between 17 and 9 has his head up his ass. Madonna was in her twenties when she hit it big. To the Australian aunt up there who claims that somehow American pop music and its starlets are responsible for her nieces sexy dancing, how about Australian pop stars like Kylie Minogue.

There’s a disconnect here. Adult pop stars, or even those still in their late teens, know what they’re doing. It’s a business. They can, one hopes, decide what they’re comfortable with and what they’re willing to do in the name of performance and publicity. This in no way makes it acceptable for children.
Parents and adults in a community are supposed to watch out for kids, keep them on the straight and narrow. I drink whiskey, I like it. I think there’s nothing wrong with drinking whiskey in moderation. But I would never even consider giving it to a ten-year-old.
There are things that are OK for adults that are not OK for children. If adult women want to encourage other adult women to be sexy, great. Leave the kids alone, though. If the kids want to dance and have fun, that’s great, too. Adults should not be making comments like, “Oh, that’s sexy!” though. That’s creepy.

Just because some middle-aged men fuck preteen girls and buy DVDs and magazines with preteen girls running around in thongs, that doesn’t mean it’s acceptable.
Do we look at child labor and say, “Oh, that’s just that society,”? No, of course not; because it’s WRONG.

So, to recap, little girls dancing? Fine. Adults setting little girls up in an erotic dance contest? Not fine.

As for the other, unrelated comments, what the hell does American soldiers setting up brothels have to do with those videos? And isn’t it possible for both to be wrong? In fact, wouldn’t it make more sense for both to be wrong?

If some Americans exploit children, does that mean other Americans can’t say the exploitation of children is wrong? Where’s the logic in that?
How does it make sense that because one American has molested a child another American can’t say a Filipino or Japanese molesting a child is bad? That’s nutty.

As for the puritanical comments, that’s such a cliche. Yes, America is more conservative than most of Western Europe. Yes, in some ways, America is more conservative than Japan. However, there are many ways in which America is a lot more open about sex than pretty much anywhere in East Asia. Why is the focus here always on pornography? How about the study of human sexuality? How about art, such as the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe? How about literature? In all of these areas, America is markedly more open than anywhere in East Asia.

I also noticed that a lot of commenters here accuse Americans of basically being whoremongering pedophiles who are also Puritanical about sex. Huh?

Americans are by no stretch of the imagination even close to being in the top ranks of johns for child prostitutes. The average age of an American prostitute is 15, it’s 11 in Thailand and 13 in Japan. I don’t have info at hand for oher countries at the moment.
The assertion that an invading force anywhere ever introduced prostitution is patently absurd. The Philippines had sex and money long before there was any notion of The Philippines. To say that prositution or lusting after teenagers was introduced by Westerners is either extreme self-imposed ignorance or a bald lie. To say on top of that that it was introduced by the Americans, who arrived in the late 19th cnetury after centuries of Spanish control of the country, makes even less sense.

Did American soldiers have illegitimate children in the Philippines and elsewhere that they then abandoned? Yep. Is there a country in the world that does not have such men? Nope.

Does that have anything at all to do with little girls dancing on a TV show in Japan? Thankfully, no.

This reminds me of the South Park episodes that criticised the impact of Paris Hilton on teens. . . Koda Kumi’s influence is just as bad as Paris Hilton. I can’t believe these kids parent’s are allowing this?!

I’ve been living in Japan for the last 2 years, what I saw here not only amazed me but freaked me out. I saw a man beating his wife on the street, i saw girls that were only 16 years old and were having children. These ppl r not normal, how can u let u 6 years old kid to dance like and to think it’s funny. I used to have a friend, and she brought her daughter to Japan. She was working as a hostess, so she started taking the kid to the bar, ( not having a baby sitter), guess what? That girl is a hooker now…….Probably thx to her mom who thought it’s cool if her 7 years old doughter is dancing on the “kanta” and she can also make more money……Children learn from parents, and if you as a parent don’t know how to educate your child, and u think a sexy dance is ok, can’t be wrong, don’t be surprised if ur 15 years old daughter will come home and tell you : Mom, dad I’m pregnant! Still think that dance is ok?

If I may say something. Prostitutes have been around everywhere since sometime B.C.. It’s no present countries fault.

Wow… quite a derived discussion we have here. I am not at all surprised that people have resorted to name calling and generalizations of nationalities. You have the anonymity of the internet after all. But seriously, who is going to take an arguement littered with insults as valid? Take a chill pill and give some honest opinion without thinking you have it all figured out… none of us do. I am sure not even a native of a country knows all what is going on there.

I’m from the USA and I surely do not know all the goods and bads about the MANY cultures that are here, but I am positive it’s impossible to generalize the people of this country with anything. There are many people of almost any type or mix of types you can imagine here. However, Japan has the same thing. I have met and talked to way too many Japanese in the casual and business world that I could simply generalize them as any one thing. I’d be careful when defending anything bad said about Japan and pointing it right back at foreigners. Of course, for those who read too much into stuff, the same thing goes for foreign countries.

In any case, here’s my two cents about the vids…
The dances were pretty cool. The girls are quite talented and can perform well on stage. The costumes were cute, however it may be a little to revealing or suggestive taking Japanese sexual culture into mind. I am sure that connection was purposeful (it was ero after all). It was definately provocative and seemed to promote the dancers as erotic as well as young. It’s the title that might be a little too much. If I ignored the title, it was really no different than the dances girls do all the time in America. Yeah… even the costumes.

In my humble personal opinion…. it’s pretty easy to see that Japan has a notable part of its culture involving sexual fantasies with considerably young people. And there are several who are against it in Japan too. I really cannot say that’s one of the better aspects of Japan, but I surely will not say that Japanese are pedophiles. Are some? Definately. In America too? Yup. Are most? No idea… However, I’ve never had discussions about my preferences or sexual fantasies about youth in America. In Japan, I’ve had a few. This is with coworkers and random people who want to talk to me and find that I can speak decent Japanese. From my experiences, Japan is way more open about this stuff. It’s liberating yet very strange that I can talk about this stuff so openly with them. In the US, it’s a lot more taboo, but I am not saying that it’s any more or less of an issue here. It’s really impossible to tell.

Now, some people have started to raise the issue of “This is Japan. That’s the way they are. Dont go there and disagree with aspects of their culture.” While I realize this is not saying that we should agree and simply accept everything about Japan, it is saying that we shouldn’t have a negative opinion about an entire country. Again this is generalization and just doesn’t work.

I don’t think I can really get an disagreement by stating that Japan’s ideas of sexuality are pretty different that from Western countries. I am always amazed at the vast variety of porn you can find there, as are my Japanese friends that see them too. (note: No, I havent watched any of them, but they are pretty easy to see in any large city.) However, I can’t really say whether or not this is a good or bad thing for the health of the nation. Even children (students I’ve had during my stay) have openly talked about sex (mostly jokingly) with adults around. They are for the most part ignored as it isnt too big a deal. I havent seen this in America.

And soooo… in recap I think people shouldn’t express anger in debate or discussion, it goes nowhere. No country does not have it’s flaws, in fact they probably have as many as each other, just differently… if that made any sense. American and Japan are both large and varied, countries (ESP America) so please stop generalizing them. The show was kewl, but the name is a little too much for my “western” tastes as well as some of my Japanese friends’. However, some didnt think too much into it and thought it was just what they saw, a dance show with children.

NOTE: I am in no way bashing Japan or considering this video a representation of what Japan is. Just a personal opinion that I am holding no grudges for. I may sound like I am picking on Japan, but that’s probably because I am talking about the general topic at hand, Japan. When I refer to America or US, I am talking mostly about where I live in Texas. By no means is that a representation of the US as a whole.

The autor of this article is pedophile himself.
“Koda Kumi’s Pedo Dance Extravaganza!”, What an absurd thing to say!
You started this thing naming an article this way.
Half of these people or even more wouldn’t think of it as ‘pedophilic’ if the article would be named in the correct way.

These girls were training very hard to perform in this show.
(entry No3) everyday for 1 to 4 hours of training. It is tough, see the Koda Kumi’s expression at the end of video.

It’s just a competition. It’s a good thing that children train ealier because their bodies can be ‘polished’ before it’s to late and joints are too stiff. They are imitating pop star (or whatever). Come on, guys, where do you see child abuse? If you think that way, probably, you will call every parent in the world a ‘pedophile’ because he/she gives a bath to their own children.

Scaring kids almost to death it’s another thing (entry No8).

There are, I suspect, no shortage of adults who sexualize underage boys. Now, imagine that, instead of the performers in the videos showed here being underage girls, they’re boys. Boys performing stereotypically sexual adult male roles, replete with macho posturing and pelvic thrusts — the exact equivalent of the female stereotypes that the little girls pictured here seek to replicate.

Now, how many of we adults would be scandalized by 12 or 7 or even 2 year-old boys imitating Elvis or Mick Jagger or P Diddy, with pelvic thrusts or whatever? I suspect none of us would take it seriously, much less cry “pedophilia”. So why are so many up in arms about those of the other gender? I suspect that it’s because we Westerners presume that anyone under the magic (and utterly arbitrary) age of 18 who appears to have a sexual identity is either a temptress or a victim of sexual abuse. In our infinite wisdom (read: cultural bias), we can only see things in this binary mode.

Humans are sexual beings, as much as bonobos or dogs are. We also like play-acting, from the earliest age. We’re suggestible by not only the evil child molester with his lollipop, but the mother, the TV producer and our peers. Toss these factors together and you get videos like these. But to those who claim a cause-effect relationship between such exhibitions and child abuse/molestation, consider this: America doesn’t have any public displays quite like these, and yet child abuse/molestation is far more common than in Japan, where these videos were made and aired. Curious, no?

Sorry dude but this kind of thing goes on in America all the time. We just don’t televise the child beauty pageants, that’s the difference. Aren’t you being a bit sensationalist with this (especially with the title)? They think it’s kawaii, not ecchi. Ah well orientalism at it’s finest.

It’s just a dance competition. You agree that the kids are sexually attractive (you say some are sexy – which is not to say you want sex with them, just that they’re sexually attractive to other people), so why shouldn’t they do a sexy dance? What bothers me is the video with the single kid in it – she was clearly being exploited by her mother, who should be charged with child abuse.