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Japan Considers Raising The Consent Age From 13

As part of a significant revision to the country’s sex crime laws, a panel appointed by the Japanese justice ministry on Friday suggested raising the country’s age of consent, which is currently among the lowest in the world at just 13.

 

The proposal to raise the consent age to 16 is one of a number of reforms that would also define the conditions for rape prosecution and make voyeurism a crime.

 

After a string of rape acquittals that sparked outrage, the justice minister received recommendations that will serve as the foundation for draft amendments that may be approved by parliament later this year.

 

Since it was enacted in 1907, Japan’s age of consent, which is the lowest among the G7 industrialized nations, has not changed.

 

In France, Germany, and China, the legal consent age is 14, while it is 16 in the United Kingdom and South Korea.

 

Children who are at least 13 years old are considered to be capable of consenting under current Japanese law, so engaging in sexual activity with them is not regarded as statutory rape.

 

Because of this, even teenage rape victims must overcome the same formidable obstacles to prosecuting their assailants as adults.

 

In many areas of Japan, regional laws prohibiting “lewd” acts with children are frequently interpreted as effectively raising the legal age of consent to 18.

 

However, they carry much less severe punishments than rape charges and classify having sex with children as merely “unethical” behavior, “completely discounting its forced nature,” according to Kazuna Kanajiri, a campaigner against pornography and sexual exploitation.

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