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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 wouldn’t take me seriously ...

On April 1, Japan will change its legal definition of an adult from those who are at least 20 years old to those who are 18 years old and older. The change will upend over 140 years of civil code ...

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 ...