Saying that game addiction is a neurological disease, the police received criticism from the gaming community

Recently, game addiction suddenly became a hot topic attracting the attention of many netizens in Japan, everything stemmed from a post titled “Anti-cybercrime policy” that the Kagoshima Prefectural Police posted on Twitter.​

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In the post, this provincial police commented that:

Immediately this post received countless negative responses from the online community. Many people think that the police’s classification of ‘gaming addiction’ as one of the mental illnesses is incorrect. Although WHO has also identified this as a disease, so far the definition of it is still vague and controversial, the online community believes that the police should not propagate such false medical knowledge. this. Some people think it’s their business to play the game, it has nothing to do with the police…
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“Now even my game play that the police want to manage?”
“What position do the police have to judge mental illness?”
“Due to the epidemic, they told us not to go out, now they tell us not to touch the game…”​

After receiving countless mixed reactions, the Kagoshima Prefectural Police deleted the post and apologized, but the wave of reactions from the online community still did not subside.​