Online retail giant Amazon has yanked from its virtual shelves a Japanese computer game that lets players simulate raping girls.<\/p>\n
A "Rapelay" videogame being hawked on Amazon by a third-party merchant was deemed inappropriate and the product’s page taken down after it was brought to the California Internet firm’s attention Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
"We determined that we did not want to be selling this particular item," Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith said of the computer game.<\/p>\n
The "Rapelay" game was created exclusively for the Japanese market but a couple of "like new" copies were being offered on Amazon by a US seller specializing in animated Japanese pornography.<\/p>\n
The computer game maker, Illusion studio based in Japan, posts a notice on its website that its products are specifically for domestic users.<\/p>\n
"As we say on the website, we don’t sell the products overseas because of the rating problem, and I cannot possibly comment on the report from San Francisco," said a spokesman for the company in Yokohama, near Tokyo.<\/p>\n
"We believe there is no problem with the software, which has cleared the domestic ratings of an ethics watchdog body," he said.<\/p>\n
The game was released in 2006. Other titles from the studio include "Battle Raper" and "Artificial Girl."<\/p>\n
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