Pokémon doujinshi incident
[8] Until then, the production of non-profit, small-scale doujinshis had often been tolerated as part of fan activities, and this was the first time that the artists and printing companies had been exposed.[5] Nintendo stated that it could not tacitly approve of the sale due to the sexual depictions of the characters, which could harm their image,[7] and pointed that as the scale of doujinshi events has grown, the general public, including small children, has had more opportunities to come into contact with them.[7] Hiroshi Imanishi [ja], who was the head of Nintendo's Public Relations Office, commented that the company only happened to learn about the book through a fan's report and that he didn't have a general interest in doujinshi.[7] Yasuhiro Minagawa, Public Relations Section Chief, also questioned the doujinshi market at the time, which disregarded the rights of copyright holders.[11] In 2013, manga artist Ken Akamatsu proposed the Doujin Mark [ja] to indicate that copyright holders have permission to engage in doujin activities, based on his concern that copyright infringement would no longer be an antragsdelikt due to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, which could lead to similar incidents to the Pokémon one, in which a complaint by a third party led to criminal action.