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A school in Japan's Yamagata Prefecture, Japan's largest cherry producer, discovered it had the same name as an erotic game brand. The city's mayor refused to change the name, but that was then.
The school's name "Sakuranbo Shougakkou" ("Cherry Elementary School") is similar to an adult game brand's website that features questionable illustrations of young children.
"If we change the name," the mayor said, "that will justify this adult world all the more." Initially, the city's board of education said changing the school's name "was not necessary".
Today, the mayor has changed his tune, noting the power of the internet and expressing concern about the safety and security of the school's children. The school's name will be changed. Maybe run it through Google first this time?
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I know if this school was in the states it's name would have been changed in a heart beat.
The school's name "Sakuranbo Shougakkou" ("Cherry Elementary School") is similar to an adult game brand's website that features questionable illustrations of young children.
"If we change the name," the mayor said, "that will justify this adult world all the more." Initially, the city's board of education said changing the school's name "was not necessary".
Today, the mayor has changed his tune, noting the power of the internet and expressing concern about the safety and security of the school's children. The school's name will be changed. Maybe run it through Google first this time?
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I know if this school was in the states it's name would have been changed in a heart beat.
