Japan has proposed raising the age of consent from 13 to 16 as part of an overhaul of sex crime legislation after a string of controversial rape acquittals. The Japanese Justice Ministry’s proposal ...
TOKYO — Japan’s parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit that had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world’s lowest, amid calls for ...
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