Publisher to investigate its hiring of two manga artists convicted of sex crimes
Japanese publisher Shogakukan said it will establish a third-party committee to investigate the company's decisions to publish works by two manga artists on its manga app despite knowing of their past sex crime convictions.Shogakukan was found to have hired a manga artist convicted of sexually assaulting a woman under the age of 20. The artist used the pseudonym Hajime Ichiro and worked on the manga series "Jojin Kamen," which has since been taken off the publisher's Manga One platform.The publisher said Monday that the manga artist for the series "Seiso no Shinrishi" had also been found guilty of indecent assault before the company hired him under his new pen name, Itsuki Yatsunami.
