Man, the world would be so much less confusing if everyone else could just adopt our cultural values and hangups. Maybe we could start a fundraiser to airdrop some GTA over Tokyo and set them on a moral and righteous path?
Products of different cultures will carry baggage, good and bad. Experiencing a piece of that culture and what makes it unique is sort of the joy. If you don't like a particular product then don't partake. That is a totally appropriate response. This constant hair-pulling over problematic aspects of foreign entertainment doesn't help anything and instead just allows an opportunity for people here to signal their own impeccable virtue (while consuming problematic content of their own). Maybe let Japan do Japan?
If you are looking to advance the cause of women and other at-risk groups, perhaps turn your eyes toward the nation of Qatar, you know, the state-funder of the news outlet cited in the OP?
Human Rights Watch
Here are some highlights:
"Provisions of Law No. 22 of 2006, Qatars first codified law to address issues of family and personal status, discriminates against women. Under article 36, a marriage contract is valid when a womans male guardian concludes the contract and two male witnesses are present. Article 57 forbids husbands from hurting their wives physically or morally, but article 58 states that it is a wifes responsibility to look after the household and to obey her husband. Other than general provisions on assault, the penal code does not criminalize domestic violence. Marital rape is not a crime."
"Qatars penal code punishes sodomy with one to three years in prison, and under Sharia law, which applies to Muslims, any individual convicted of zina (sex outside of marriage) can be sentenced to flogging (non-married persons) or the death penalty (married persons). According to media reports, dozens of people have been given flogging sentencesranging from 40 to 100 lashessince 2004, including at least 45 between 2009 and 2011."
"We criminalize sodomy and flog the hell out of people for sex outside of marriage but have you seen how messed up Japan is?"
But by all means, lets continue to pull our hair out over over swimsuits on fictional characters. There are plenty of opportunities in the world to be outraged if that is your thing but maybe start by protecting the rights of actual people. Once you make some progress on that first order problem then move on to to knock-on effects of media.