Japanese government proposes raising age of consent from its current 13 years old

SoraNews24 ^ | October 25, 2022 | Casey Baseel

[Trump20162020]

On Monday, Japan’s Ministry of Justice publicly presented a draft to amend the country’s penal code and raise the age of consent. Currently, the age of consent in Japan is 13, but the proposed revision would raise it by three years, to 16.

[Mr. Blond]

Hunter Biden booking a hasty trip to Japan.

[servantboy777]

13? Good grief! That’s just a baby.

[EvilCapitalist]

Don’t forget “The Big Guy” too. You know he likes them that young, or younger.

[BigEdLB]

Yes. The Biden boys think 13 is too old

[Vigilanteman]

The Japanese can sometimes be slow about updating their laws. The prison system rules, for example, are about a century old. Prisoners are expected to work 11 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Sounds harsh, but they come out of prison with actual job skills and nobody ever gets raped or beaten up in prison. The last major reform took place sometime in the 1950s when the 12 hour day was reduced to 11.

[Chode]

ya think???

[SaxxonWoods]

Have to give the Bidens boys props, this would never have come up if not for them.

[DoughtyOne]

That’s pretty repulsive.

It wasn’t that long ago that kids in the U. S. could get
married at 14, with parental consent.

Heck, at 18-21, I still question if young people are ready
for that much responsibility.

[PGR88]

[Jeff Chandler]

Yeah, I don’t think Americans can honestly criticize other country’s prison systems.

[Jeff Chandler]

Heck, at 18-21, I still question if young people are ready for that much responsibility.

They used to be.

[Gay State Conservative]

Geeze...one would wonder why all those Western perverts flock to Thailand and Vietnam when they can do that stuff legally in Japan.

[DoughtyOne]

True. Part of that was related to the realities of the
agrarian community they grew up in. People grow up quick
on farms.

[Swordmaker]

Geeze...one would wonder why all those Western perverts flock to Thailand and Vietnam when they can do that stuff legally in Japan.

From what I understand, most prefectures in Japan have higher age of consent, such as 18, and the age of 13 or even 16 only applies in some small out of the way non-civil organized areas where they have little population to pass different ordinances. The pressure on the National Government to raise it country wide has not been great because their local governments have already taken care of the issue in local laws.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Sheesh. No wonder why Japan has fetishes of girls wearing schoolgirl uniforms.

[Chickensoup]

No actually I think 12 to 14 makes sense. There are kids who want to begin their lives early. And they should be able to do that

[DoughtyOne]

Except that pedophiles would be the first to take
advantage of it.

[Chickensoup]

Not really. Pedos like prepubesent children not sexually mature teens.

[null and void]

I guess they ignored biden’s plea to lower it to 7...