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 (CNN) — When Kaneko Miyuki reported her sexual assault as a seven-year-old in Japan, she remembers the police laughing at her. “I was already confused and scared,” she said. “They ...

Japanese lawmakers implemented regulation Friday that raises the national age of consent from 13 to 16 and rewrites how the country defines sex crimes. The change was long sought by members of the ...

Japan's parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world's lowest, amid calls for greater ...

In the summer of 2021, when COVID-19 and the postponed Olympics were together delivering a heady mix of sweat and headlines in Japan, a 56-year-old male politician from the Constitutional Democratic ...

(Bloomberg) -- Japan passed a landmark sex-crime bill on Friday, in a long fought-for bid to make a range of sexual offenses, including rape, photo voyeurism and online child-grooming, more easily ...

The Japanese government has proposed changing its consent age from 13 to 16 years old. If passed, the country will no longer have the lowest age of consent of all G7 nations. The overhaul of Japan's ...