These sexual crimes go unreported for good, yet dogmatic reason. One writer in an article titled Japan’s “ Not-So-Secret Shame” reports that over 95% of incidents of sexual violence are not reported in Japan. “High school girls are really into this ‘kawaii’ culture so they had to be cute,” said Japanese activist Yayoi Matsunaga in an article titled ‘ Sexual assault in Japan: ‘Every girl was a victim.’ĥ0% of young Japanese women have been molested on a train, many being underage. And anyone who’s watched anime is familiar with “ kawaii” or cute, another hypersexual fetishization of young girls. Japan was also one of the last countries to officially ban the possession of child porn. While many of these JK businesses are non-sexual - others are. JK ( joshi kosei or “school girl”) services, which are like maid or hostess cafes but feature minors, are abundant and feed into this fantasy. There is a common fetishization of young girls in Japan. Japan may have one of the lowest crime rates in the world, but some even attribute that to their cultural censorship of wide-spread sex crimes. One top writer on Quora, who lived in Japan for several years, theorized that laws are kept deliberately ambiguous enough to allow those in power to get away with the confusing consent laws.Įither way, it’s baffling. In short, the age of consent is so confusing in Japan that even this simplified chart begs many questions: However, 13 and 14-year olds are permitted to give consent to each other. The minimum sentence for sex with any female under the age of 13 is five-years. Under the Juvenile Obscene Acts, passed in 1947, no one over the age of 14 can have sex with 13–14 year-olds.
Now, after I received a quick 101 in Japanese law, it’s more obvious that Japan’s age of consent is left intentionally ambiguous. The age of consent in the Philippines used to be 12, but following widespread outcry, a proposal was passed last year to raise the age of consent to 16. In fact, it’s the third-lowest in the world. Since then, Japan’s age of consent has not changed.
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In 1907, the Penal Code of Japan set a minimum age of consent of 13. Please help us with the petition to protect teenage adolescence.’ What’s going on and how is this accepted? ‘We demand the Ministry of Justice to raise age of consent. The petition continues: ‘Japan has been getting warnings to raise the age from international society as it is very low compared to other countries, however, the age that was enacted over 100 years ago still remains the same.’ ‘Do you think a 13 year old teenager is capable of knowing the consequences of sexual activities and saying yes or no?’ The age of consent refers to the minimum age at which a person is considered to be capable of giving consent to sexual acts.’ ‘The age of consent in Japan is 13 years old. More than 50,000 people signed it calling for Japan’s legal age of consent to be raised from 13 to 16. The first article I read was a 2020 petition calling for Japan to raise the age of consent. I wanted to find out why, but the answers weren’t easy to digest. I was on Google Trends the other day seeing what was going on in the world and stumbled upon something weird happening in Japan.