{"id":90355,"date":"2019-03-22T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/339188"},"modified":"2019-03-22T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:02:00","slug":"sega-removing-actor-from-western-version-of-judgment-after-drug-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/sega-removing-actor-from-western-version-of-judgment-after-drug-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega removing actor from Western version of Judgment after drug scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sega will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEGA\/status\/1109077533121613827\">edit&nbsp;the voice and character model<\/a> for Kyohei Hamura&nbsp;(pictured) in the western release of<em> Judgment<\/em>, after the character&#8217;s actor Pierre Taki was arrested for illegal drug use.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taki was detained by investigators earlier this month on suspicion of possessing and using cocaine, and eventually admitted to using a small amount of the drug.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/338552\/Sega_pulls_Judgment_from_sale_in_Japan_following_drug_arrest.php\">initially prompted Sega<\/a> to pull <em>Judgment<\/em> &#8212; which is a <em>Yakuza<\/em> spin-off &#8212; from sale in Japan. Rather than doing the same in the West, the publisher has instead opted to remove Taki from the game before it launches on June 25.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sega has also temporarily pulled all screenshots and trailers featuring Taki&#8217;s character Hamura from its official channels, and will release updated materials at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re baffled as to why Sega has taken such a hard&nbsp;line stance, drug laws in Japan are still incredibly strict compared to the rest of the world, and public figures caught using illegal substances are often&nbsp;ostracized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sega will edit&nbsp;the voice and character model for Kyohei Hamura&nbsp;(pictured) in the western release of Judgment, after the character&#8217;s actor Pierre Taki was arrested for illegal drug use.&nbsp; Taki was detained by investigators earlier this month on suspicion of possessing and using cocaine, and eventually admitted to using a small amount of the drug. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}