Let's take a look at censorship/banning of movies in different countries...
This came to mind when I was thinking of a part of a scene being cut out (a nipple) of the USA version the movie "The Emigrates" (or "The New Land" based on Wilhelm Moberg's books.

Japan
Despite Japan's strict censorship policy on nudity (see Pornography in Japan), very few films are banned there. Those that are banned are usually put under self imposed studio bans by the companies that produced them.

• 1945: The Akira Kurosawa directed movie The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail was temporarily banned by the SCAP because it portrayed feudalism in a positive light.
• 1955: The Toho production Half Human, directed by Ishirō Honda was put under a self imposed ban by Toho after it was feared that the film would be seen as degrading portrayal of Japan's Ainu minority.

The film was never released on laserdisc or DVD, even though there were several home video releases and to this day the only way to see it is through its heavily edited US version.

• 1958: Varan the Unbelievable was put under a self imposed studio ban by Toho for some of the same reasons that Half Human was but was finally released in the 1980s on VHS and laserdisc (with a few lines of reportedly racist dialogue removed from the film).
• 1969: Teruo Ishii's exploitation flick Horrors of Malformed Men‎ was put under a studio ban by Toei due to the film's numerous offensive elements.

These days, with the film currently unavailable in any format in Japan or the West, the only way to see it is through the occasional screening.

• 1974: Toho placed yet another one of their films under a self imposed ban, this time Prophecies of Nostradamus, an apocalyptic disaster film after a group of hibakusha, or nuclear radiation survivors, saw the film and were highly offended by sequences showing a research party being attacked by radioactive cannibals and a pair of horribly deformed post-apocalyptic mutants fighting over a worm. After airing the film uncut on television in 1980, Toho withdrew the film from circulation entirely. Toho attempted releasing this film onto VHS in the late 1980s but was stopped due to protests. The only way to see the film is through the film's US version The Last Days of Planet Earth or through a grey market copy of the uncut version containing the time code at the top of the screen.

There was also a banning on extreme cruelty to animals. And the ones were about this film:

• 1984: Cannibal Holocaust made the ban and was unable to make bootleg copies.

United States
Films are usually not banned today in the United States, as the section on freedom of speech in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is usually enforced. Decades ago, however, obscenity was a valid reason for a film to be banned in certain cities across the nation.

• 1908: The James Boys in Missouri and Night Riders are banned in Chicago.
• 1915: The Birth of a Nation banned in several American cities, including Chicago, Las Vegas, Denver, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, and the states of Ohio, Kansas, and West Virginia [7]. Unbanned in 1916 outside of Kansas. [8]
• 1917: The film Birth Control, produced by and starring Margaret Sanger banned, with the New York Court of Appeals holding that a film on family planning work may be censored "in the interest of morality, decency, and public safety and welfare".^[23] Message Photo-Play v. George H. Bell, 179 A.D. 13 (1917).
• 1919 - 1920: Within Our Gates banned in Chicago, New Orleans, and Omaha, for its depiction of interracial rape, lynching, and racial discrimination.
• 1926: The Red Kimono, based on a real-life Chicago murder case and political scandal, banned in Chicago. The film was also the target of an unsuccessful lawsuit for defamation in California seeking an injunction to prohibit its public viewing, which California courts refused to grant.
• 1928: The Racket banned in Chicago.
• 1931: Frankenstein banned in Kansas for its portrayal of cruelty.
• 1932: Freaks banned in Cleveland.
• 1936 - 1966: The 1931 version of "The Maltese Falcon" (not to be confused with the better known "cleaned-up" 1941 version) could not be shown in its unedited "lewd" version.
• 1945: Scarlet Street banned in New York City, according to Jan Morris' book Manhattan '45.
• 1949: Pinky was banned by the city of Marshall, Texas because it portrayed an interracial couple, a violation of the city's censorship code.
• 1953: The Moon Is Blue banned in Jersey City, New Jersey as "indecent and obscene."^[24]
• 1961: Victim banned in many American cities due to language. [9]
• 1966 - 1968: Viva Maria! banned in Dallas for sexual and anti-Catholic content, prior to the United States Supreme Court striking down the ban and limiting the ability of municipalities to ban films for adults in Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas.
• 1968 - 1991: Titicut Follies is barred from distribution to the general public by court order because the movie was considered a violation of the privacy of the prison inmates it filmed.^[23]
• 1969: I Am Curious (Yellow) is banned as pornography. After three court cases, it was unbanned when the anti-obscenity laws concerning films was overturned.^[23]
• 1979: Monty Python's Life of Brian was banned in several towns for showing controversial themes about Christianity.^[23]
• 1982: White Dog was given only a limited preview run by Paramount Pictures before they shelved it, feeling it was too controversial for a domestic release and out of threats of boycotts by the NAACP.^{[25][26][clarification needed How is this a ban?]}
• 1984: Silent Night, Deadly Night was removed from theaters after protests by the Parent-Teacher Association.^{[clarification needed Was the film actually banned from theatres? If so, which organization instituted the ban?]}
• 1987: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story is banned from sale, distribution, and public exhibition by court order after a civil trial on copyright infringement. Director Todd Haynes had failed to obtain the proper licenses to use several Carpenters songs in the film.^[23]
• 1988: The Last Temptation of Christ banned in Savannah when city leaders sent a petition to Universal Studios requesting a ban. However, opened in Savannah on September 23, 1988, 6 weeks after national and worldwide debut.
• 1997: The Tin Drum was briefly banned in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, which deemed the film child pornography. The shot in question depicted minors performing oral sex.
• 2002 - present: The Profit, a film that borrows elements of the life of L. Ron Hubbard, was prevented from release when the Church of Scientology claimed the film could taint the jury pool in the wrongful death trial of former member Lisa McPherson. A legal dispute with investor Robert S. Minton has kept it from being released even after the suit was settled. The Disinformation Book Of Lists and The Times have characterized The Profit as a "banned film" in the United States.^[23][27]

Theoretically, free speech in the U.S. can also be limited if it might cause a clear and present danger of an imminent lawless action, or constitutes a copyright violation.

Sweden

1922 - 1972	Nosferatu	Banned due to high impact scary violence and cruelty. A censored version was later released.
1968	Django	Banned due to high impact violence and cruelty.
1981	Mad Max	Banned due to high impact violence and cruelty.
1984	Tenebre	Banned due to high impact scary violence.
1984 - 1999	Cannibal Holocaust	Banned due to high impact violence and animal cruelty. A censored version has since been classified "15". However, bootleg copies for the uncut version are available and since the beginning of the 2000´s it has been legal uncut in Sweden.
1997	Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation	Banned due to high impact scary violence and cruelty[6].

A For the final film for Kamen Rider Decade Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Double & Decade: Movie War 2010, Gackt will be releasing the song "Stay the Decade Alive" on January 1, 2010. Along with the CD and CD+DVD releases, a "special memorial single" will also be sold. The theme of the first song was the "Journey" (旅, Tabi), the theme of the second was the "War" (戦, Ikusa), and the third's theme is "Eternity" (永遠, Eien)

GACKT will appear in the following magazine(s) in January.

1/10: Voice Actor Grand Prix [声優グランプリ]
N/A: FOOL'S MATE
N/A: B-PASS

GACKT will appear in the following magazines in December

12/1: Tokyo Walker [Tokyo Walker]
12/3: Weekly Famitsu [週刊ファミ通]
12/5: ROCK STAR vol.5 [ROCK STAR vol.5]
12/7: Nikkei WOMAN [日経WOMAN]
12/9: ARENA37℃ [ARENA37℃ 1月号」
12/10: The Television HOMME [ザ テレビジョンHOMME]

GACKT will appear in the following magazines in November.

11/1: B-PASS (Cover) [B-PASS」(表紙)
11/4: The Television (Serial) [ザ テレビジョン] (連載)
11/10: ARENA37℃ (Cover) [ARENA37℃」2009年12月号表紙巻頭大特集(＋付録ポスター)
11/20: Otonafami 2010 January [オトナファミ2010 January号」
11/24: Monthly The Television [月刊ザ テレビジョン]
11/27: B-PASS [B-PASS]

Sources: Tokyograph (Nov 5th 2009) MainIchi (with pictures) Japanese Yahoo Entertainment Gackt has been given the lead role in a theatrical version of the jidaigeki story "Nemuri Kyoshiro". This will be his first performance in a stage play. Originally a series of novels by Renzaburo Shibata, "Nemuri Kyoshiro" has been the basis of more than a dozen films and several television dramas. The story revolves around a sleepy-eyed swordsman born from a Japanese mother and a foreign father. Performances are scheduled to begin at the Nissay Theatre in Tokyo next May. At the press conference Gackt revealed his real age. He will turn 37 next year. Edit: There were many results for Nemuri Kyoshiro on DramaWiki so I don't really now which one it's supposed to be. Nemuri Kyoshiro (TV Asahi - 2005) Nemuri Kyoshiro (TV Tokyo - 2005) Nemuri Kyoshiro ~ Burari Hika (TV Tokyo 2005)

Source: The Other East

Yahoo bought Geocities a while back (for several billion dollars[!]) and yesterday they pulled the plug. Oh sure, younger people may laugh at Geocities, and sure it was basic and filled with terrible animated gifs but short of buying webspace and coding your own page from the ground up there weren’t many options for making a personal webpage back then. Geocities was free webspace. Some say that Yahoo fucked up big time, they shelled out all that money then didn’t do anything with it. There wasn’t Myspace, Twitter, Facebook, or Wordpress back then. If you wanted to express yourself on the internet for free on dedicated webspace back in the day you went with Geocities (or Tripod or Angelfire, but Geocities was the hotness with its neighborhoods) Considering how many personal webpages are basically Myspace pages they missed out on a big opportunity to make a lot of money. I’d like to see if they saw a profit on paying 3 billion for a free hosting site…

Also think about how many dead hotlinks are on forums around the world now. Yeesh.

But on a jrock note this means that two of the more important websites regarding the history X are dead, I believe Jun’s site and that site with all the indies era bootlegs and merch documented were both on Geocities. Hope someone mirrored that stuff.

I was one of those who had my homepage way back in mid 1990s, during the years I've been hosted at Fortunecity, Tripod and for a while maybe also Geocities. I wasn't the one who did that much HTML coding, more often using a program.
Nowdays it seems as if most homepages/fan pages etc have moved to various forms of communities (closed or open).
Of course there is there Wayback Machine that can be used for all the dead links.

According to TOSHI's blog, he is suffering from intercostal neuralgia. Intercostal neuralgia is a common condition that consists of abdominal pain caused by entrapped nerves in the abdominal muscles.
TOSHI states, that in his case, his condition was brought about by high amounts of stress and that he is resting now.

Source: Toshi's Blog and Wikipedia on intercostal neuralgia

Source: The Other East
A notice has been posted on the official Miyavi homepage that all four American stops on Miyavi’s tour have been canceled until further notice. They cite a variety of reasons including visa issues, venue booking complications, and an injury that Miyavi sustained in Europe that will require treatment. They say the tour will be rescheduled and announced as soon as the venues and dates are confirmed.
Read the full post here: Link

I dreamed Sweden and South Korea were playing a soccer match. Sometime during that match the band Super Junior would perform. Fast forward. A Swedish man came and told me that I had won a meet-and-greet with the band.
Me and the Swedish guy went to a hotel, we walked up three stairs and the futher up we came the more luxurious the surroundings got.
Before we went to the hotel and during the time we were walking to the place where I would meet the band I was told by their representative some things; I wasn't allowed to take pictures - most likely they confiscate my cellphone, there were also certain questions I wasn't allowed to ask them. One of them being "I'm sure you don't see that much of each new place you visit since you spend most of the time at hotel rooms?".
I had a really hard time figuring out what to ask them since I wasn't a fan of them, barely familiar with them. Just heard the name of the group.
I thought of calling haru_no_keeki and asking her of what I should ask them, but the Swedish guy told me it would probably cost alot calling to Germany, so there were no use of the cellphone. This makes me draw the conclusion that the soccer game were taking place in Korea. I almost sure it did.
When I finally got to meet them; me, the Swedish guy and their representative were in a very small sparingly furnished room, it was a huge contrast to what I had seen earlier. Nice on the outside, ugly on the inside? Can't tell, it was just this one room.
I got to meet four of the band members, not any the others. I remember them giving me books one of them being Bamse (Swedish cartoon) and another a cross-word book.
I thought to myself "Try to at least remember their names when you talk to them."
They did tell me what their names were in the dream, but I can't remember them now - very frustrating.
There were this awkward silence for a long time, but then one of the guys asked "Do you like cross-word?"
"Yeah, yeah I do."
It made things easier. I'm not good with with words.
In the end I thought it would have been better if someone else, a true fan had won this. I don't even remember taking part in some contest where the prize was a meet-and-greet.

This morning I dreamed about Malice Mizer.
I was some member of a band, I think La'cryma Christi who was being very sick. [1]
I asked Gackt to tell me about Kami. He didn't directly tell me instead I got the sense of that he let me see what happened in the past.
Malice Mizer was about to perform in a small club. As Kami walked onstage he collapsed and not getting up even though his named was called.
The club was emptied fast of people. [It suprised me how quiet the crowed was]
I remember Közi asking me "Why are you still here? Can't you see he's suffering." [2]

1. I have no idea which band member I was.
2. I think Közi refered to Gackt here. But it doesn't make sense, it's Kami who's laying on the floor not responding.

For about a 1-1½ year I've been reading gacktisgod LJ from time to time, silently standing at the side seeing her major mood swings. Alot of the times being angry acting like an immature 12-year old screaming and swearing.... What could you call it - Lack of vocabulary?

Unfortunately (?) one of her very first posts that I read was one where she (according to her) being mistaken of stalking Gackt, while she wrote that it actually was a girl from Australia and that she because of that been banned from the Dears fan club. (This was during the Dears fan club trip to Australia in 2005).

What upset me the most was that she literally threatened to kill this girl from Australia. If gacktisgod wouldn't have friend-locked her LJ I would have direct-linked to this post, so you could read the post yourself.

Now I didn't get the very best first impression of her, reading that.

I would very much like to talk with this girl from Australia to hear her version of the story.