Amazon yanks Japanese rape simulation computer game

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Online retail giant Amazon has yanked from its virtual shelves a Japanese computer game that lets players simulate raping girls.

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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.

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“We determined that we did not want to be selling this particular item,” Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith said Friday of the computer game.

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The “Rapelay” game was created exclusively for the Japanese market but a couple of “like new” copies were being offered on Amazon by a U.S. seller specializing in animated Japanese pornography.

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The computer game maker, Illusion studio based in Japan, posts a notice on its website that its products are specifically for domestic users.

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“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.

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“We believe there is no problem with the software, which has cleared the domestic ratings of an ethics watchdog body,” he said.

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The game was released in 2006. Other titles from the studio include “Battle Raper” and “Artificial Girl.”

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