PervertLand because nowhere else on Earth is this stuff so celebrated and accepted. Kiddie porn is apparently legal to possess in Tokyo, that is pictures and videos of CHILD RAPE.
More than 600 victims of this came forward last year, no telling how many stayed silent. Unfortunately looks like they will just have to keep wondering who on the bus/train/class is looking at them funny because they own some of those videos of their rape.
Child prostitution is just seen as a way for a little girl to earn some spending money.
That is a sick society.
Moves proposed by the DPJ in July 2010 that would enable a government-affiliated body to block child pornography sites beginning in April have been hampered by disagreements over screening criteria and how to deal with potential lawsuits by site operators who believe they have been unfairly targeted.
Japan has laws against 'true' sexual acts but not 'imitation' of such acts. It's all tied up in legal definition of "what sex is"--that Clinton so conveniently fell back on.
It is illegal in the US and still runs rampid--sickos are not discouraged by laws. The Internet has become a refuge for sex offenders. Child prostitution is rampid world wide. This issue also raises the problem of the age comparison between nations. In Europe, legal age of consent for sexual contact: 13 in Scandinavia, 16 in the Netherlands and India. Although the age of sexual consent in Japan is 13 years of age, depending on jurisdicion, prefecture law usually overrides federal law, raising the legal age up to 18 just like in the US.
Prince Andrew has even been caught up in the controversy. And who can forget the decades of abuse that went on inside the Catholic Church. Might note: New York v Ferber and the Supreme Court.