Tsurayu wrote...
That sounds more like an arrest for material that was real child pornography. You have to remember lolicon doesn't necessarily mean the same thing in Japan as it does overseas. To us lolicon is a genre of anime and manga that depicts underage girls, but in Japan it really only refers to the Lolita Complex, which means the men could have gotten in trouble for posting actual child pornography.
Besides that it sounds more like they were arrested for failure to comply with a federal investigation (i.e. refusing to follow a legal order.) No matter what the situation you just don't do that.
I don't think we need to signal the coming of the apocalypse just yet.
Edit: Nevermind I see now they were talking about two different sets of two individuals.
also bear in mind about the arrest of the guy who shared the Rapelay Game,
as much as i hate to say this, this very well might be the apocalypse.
If the Japanese government is beginning to arrest people sharing hentai, then it seems the beginning has already begun.
however, it seemed that they arrested people before back in 2007, so in a way, i could be wrong