I was reading an article today that appears to have originated in Japan and was picked up by the international newswire. There were several pictures of a woman who was sentenced to prison in police custody and I noticed a censor blur in every picture with her hands/arms, I assume because she was in handcuffs.
Is this something that is usually censored in media in Japan?
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/11t6b12/is_it_typical_for_news_images_to_censor_handcuffs/
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Absolutely usual. Despite showing them escorted by the police, and referring to them as 容疑者, you mustn’t show the handcuffs as you’d “make them look guilty” before that’s been officially established. It’s illogical nonsense if you look too closely.