Posted on 06/16/2023 3:41:00 AM PDT by FarCenter
Tokyo (AFP) – Japan's age of consent was raised from 13, among the world's lowest, to 16 years old on Friday as lawmakers passed key reforms to sex crime legislation.
The reforms, which also clarify rape prosecution requirements and criminalise voyeurism, cleared parliament's upper house in a unanimous vote.
Campaigners welcomed the reforms, with the Tokyo-based group Human Rights Now calling them "a big step forward".
The lifting of the age of consent in particular will "send a message to society that sexual violence by adults against children is unacceptable", the group said in a statement.
The age of consent -- below which sexual activity is considered statutory rape -- is 16 in Britain, 15 in France, and 14 in Germany and China.
Japan's had been unchanged since 1907, with children aged 13 and above deemed capable of consent.
In practice however, across many parts of the country regional ordinances banning "lewd" acts with minors were sometimes seen as effectively raising the age of consent to 18.
Under the new law, teen couples no more than five years apart in age will be exempt from prosecution if both partners are over 13.
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How long before Victoria Nuland shows up in Japan to save "our democracy"™ ?
I’m going to do myself a favor and not Google “naughty Japanese school girls”.
I’m sure places in Africa, South America and Southeast Asian archipelagos have unofficial rules that require menstruation to determine that age.
IIRC moslems do that.
The gay community will not like the change, but obviously it’s the right thing to do.
When I was stationed in Sasebo from 82 to 85, the cafe bar I worked at part time would show raw porn on at least 2 of their several TV’s around the room. School kids came in regularly after school to snack and hang out. They were always half watching the videos and on the most brutal scenes they would all cover their mouths and giggle to one another...
Truly a different culture sexually over there...
It’s not going to end enjo kosai in Tokyo
The kids in Japan usually read Hentai comic books beginning at the age of puberty and by the time many girls are 13 they are active, and not with boys their own age,but with much older men.
BUt the real problem in Japan is the lack of marriage and child bearing. Sexuality is very much pursued but in ways that do not create family. That’s the real problem.
Hentai comics ( warning explicit sexual content) : https://myhentaicomics.com/
Biden Family hardest hit. Hunter loved him some young hookers from Asia. So much so he took lots of photos.
I’m going to do myself a favor and not Google “naughty Japanese school girls”.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You do not have to google any thing.
I have a Japanese American friend who lives in Tokyo. The school girls mostly wear uniforms. After school they walk around in gaggles of girls, the ones that are on the make I am told, roll their socks down to their ankles. Foreigners need not apply.
The government is quite right to raise the age of consent, because it is a serious social problem that is an institution where throughout life there is sex but without family. What happens with girls in Japan is part of that problem.....and the result is a low birth rate so that the population is shrinking.
>>and the result is a low birth rate so that the population is shrinking
In Japan’s case, a shrinking population is a good thing.
Japan has 125 million population in an area the size of Montana. Unfortunately the area is mostly mountainous Islands with limited usable space and arable land. Nor are there many unexploited mineral resources.
Japan’s previous attempts to solve the population/resource imbalance by conquering Korea, Manchuria, China, etc., and establishing a “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” ended unhappily.
In New Jersey, Juliet’s age of consent is 13, if Romeo is 17 or less. Pretty much, if you send an above average looking daughter to government school in New Jersey, she’s going to get nailed at age 13, with bureaucrat’s spawn getting pick of the litter. Along with their required 30 vaccinations, government schools should require birth control.
Exceleent Socialist engineering.
There are too many Japanese already!
And the Japanese? Ask them if they think there are too many Americans?
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