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[-] GTKashi@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

The age bit here isn't a big deal. This just catches national law up to the already lower end of prefectural laws (all 16 to 18 I think). The bigger change is that the victim no longer needs to prove they physically fought back for it to be considered non-consentual.

[-] QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

The bigger change is that the victim no longer needs to prove they physically fought back for it to be considered non-consentual.

Holy fucking shit.

[-] Codo@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

I used to think the term “rape culture” was overblown, then I started reading shit like this. Absolutely disgusting. A victim has to physically fight back - putting them in greater danger and their lives at risk - AND they have to be able to prove it? How does a child prove they physically fought back even if they had the wherewithal to? Disgusting.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I respect Japan on a lot of things, but this was a whole area I was eagerly awaiting some societal change on. Still don’t know if new laws will actually result in changes to people’s behavior.

[-] MrTulip@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That sound you hear is thousands of incels seething with rage.

complains about Western influence

[-] DarkenLM@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Curious, because the West was so influential in Japan that Coronel Sanders is the Japanese Santa Claus lol

[-] Darkrai@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Also the US literally wrote their constitution in WW2.

[-] shakcked@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

The fact that age of consent was 13 in a developed nation is a good reminder that as far as we've come, human kind as while still has a long way to go.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Every prefecture had already raised the local age of consent to at least 16, several are at 18. So this is just the national level playing catch up.

No, it's the change to the rape definition that makes all the difference here. It's a massive change for the better.

[-] cloaker@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

But how does prosecution work in Japan? When is it national jurisdiction? It does matter.

[-] duggomoggo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[-] CIWS-30@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Like others have been saying, that was more of a technicality than a reality, as the actual age for every prefecture was already 16-18, with ages lower than 18 generally only being permissible in a legal marriage approved of by the parents (If I'm remembering right).

It's kind of like if in the US, the Federal age of consent was 13, but all 50 states and every territory had already raised it to 16 to 18, meaning the real age of consent was basically 18, it's just that congress was too lazy or distracting to update the federal law to what all the states and territories had already passed.

[-] nmac101@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's 14 in Portugal

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