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The age of consent is 14 in Germany and China. What’s Japan’s age of consent?

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The age of consent is 14 in Germany and China. What’s Japan’s age of consent?

According to multiple Feb. 21, 2023, news reports, a panel in the Japanese justice ministry wants to raise the country’s consent age from 13 to 16. The move comes in response to criticism that existing laws didn’t do enough to protect children. A series of reforms to the penal code will also make voyeurism a criminal offense and clarify what rape prosecution requires. In the United States, the age of consent varies between 16 and 18 years old. It’s 16 in Britain and South Korea, 15 in France, and 14 in Germany and China. Japan’s age of consent hasn’t changed since 1907.

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