Japan raises age of authorization from 13 to 16 years

Long-awaited modification part of a series of reforms to strengthen sex-crime laws released : 16 Jun 2023 at 15: 45 The reforms to Japan’s sex criminaloffense laws cleared parliament’s upper home in a consentaneous vote. (Photo: AFP) TOKYO: Japan’s age of authorization was raised from 13, amongst the world’s mostaffordable, to 16 years old on Friday as legislators passed essential reforms to sex criminaloffense legislation. The reforms, which likewise clarify rape prosecution requirements and criminalise voyeurism, cleared parliament’s upper home in a consentaneous vote. Campaigners invited the reforms, with the Tokyo-based group Human Rights Now calling them “a huge action forward”. The lifting of the age of authorization in specific will “send a message to society that sexual violence by grownups versus kids is undesirable”, the group stated in a declaration. The age of authorization — listedbelow which sexual activity is thoughtabout statutory rape — is 16 in Britain, 15 in France, and 14 in Germany and China. Japan’s hadactually been thesame giventhat 1907, with kids aged 13 and above considered capable of permission. In practice nevertheless, throughout lotsof parts of the nation local regulations bann
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