The Cabinet Office introduced that it had stopped utilizing a poster to lift consciousness about stopping sexual abuse among the many youthful technology after it was identified that it was much like one other illustrator’s work. I deeply apologize for this,” he apologized.
The Cabinet Office created and used posters for awareness-raising because this month was designated as Youth Sexual Violence Prevention Month. On the 18th, we stopped using it after receiving an external indication that it was similar.
The Cabinet Office held a press conference on the 19th and confirmed with Toppan Printing, which commissioned the production, to find out that Mr. Tanaka’s work was referenced during the production process, and it was reported that the check was insufficient. I explained that I stopped using about 16,000 posters.
He also revealed that he had apologized to Tanaka.
A Cabinet Office official said, “It is extraordinarily regrettable that there have been some inappropriate factors, and we’ll ask the enterprise operator to take a honest response. We deeply apologize for inflicting bother to Misaki Tanaka.” I apologized.