Steam and itch.io “mustn't succumb to unjust pressure with no legal basis,” Japan free speech organization urges amidst mass censorship of games

true, but the fact that it is even allowed to exist in Japan in the first place says a lot.

They take what censorship they do have incredibly seriously, though. To the point that many Japanese companies stopped selling uncensored versions of their games in the West because their domestic audience was using VPNs to buy them and that was enough to get the government on their asses.

Even the possibility of Japanese users bypassing censorship was enough to put them in a worse situation than the West is currently in with payment processors.