Proof that I will never understand Japanese pop culture. Ever.

The Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization (BPO) criticized Japanese broadcasting companies for the amount of violence and “sexual expressions” in variety shows, when the organization’s committee on “youth and broadcasting” held a press conference on Thursday, the Yomiuri Shimbun reports.

BPO, the broadcasting industry’s own advisory body on ethical matters especially criticized the prevalence and increasing cruelty of the so-called “batsu geemu,” literally “punishment game,” a distinctively Japanese phenomenon where the participants, usually comedians or celebrities, are subject to the wackiest of schemes, ending in corporal or otherwise humiliating punishment... (source)

If Tubgirl with a pixilated va-jay-jay passes, but this sort of programming gets slammed, then there's really no way of knowing what's OK/Not OK in Japan anymore, is there.

Ow, my balls.