Number of Child porn cases jump to record hights in Japan.

[Amnestic]

Therefore, unless I'm mistaken, "child" porn could be a 19 year old.

Sexual age of consent in Japan is 13 years of age. I'm not an internet lawlyer but I would like to posit that 'child porn' constitutes as those under the age of 13 in this case.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

*frowns* What's wrong with saying grim?

*Gasp* Nothing! Nothing at all! I'm British and I say Grim all the time. And after stalking *Cough* I mean scanning over your profile I see you are too. :¬D

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'm sorry, but it's Japan, none of this amazes me.

"So you're saying that pubic hair is immoral and disgusting, and needs to be censored, yet owning kiddie porn is totally legal?"

Nothing wrong right there.

edit: I think that somehow, WW2 fucked up the sexuality of the Axis countries (excluding Italy).

It's probably due to the fact that Japan is mad for cuteness.

On the one side you have high school girls flaunting over Hello Kitty. And on the darker side you have sickos flaunting over little girls.

 

[Lonan]

Therefore, unless I'm mistaken, "child" porn could be a 19 year old.

Sexual age of consent in Japan is 13 years of age. I'm not an internet lawlyer but I would like to posit that 'child porn' constitutes as those under the age of 13 in this case.

In Canada, the age of consent is 16, but possesing images of people under the age of 18 is considered the crime of "possesing child pornography" or whatever it's called. I doubt Canada is the wild card country in terms of that policy.

 

[joystickjunki3]

What age are they considering child pornography in this article? Because, as I recall, the legal age in Japan is 14.

I just wanted to make sure that we're not talking American standards here.

 

[The Austin]

Dude, Im suprised they havnt made a child porn game yet.

 

[crooked_ferret]

You expected different from a culture that invented Loli and..the tentacle pr0n..thing..

Japan is a leader in robotics and such, it's just a shame they're also a leader in the rest of the crazy shit going on in the world too.

yes, but it should occur to you that apparently that lack of what we in the western world would consider to be personal restraint I suppose. Is very likely what has lead to japan being a leader in many fields. Let me make one thing clear though I am in no way defending pedophilia.

That being said, if you look at some other parts of the world, having a crudely animated picture of a unclothed child in Australia is grounds for imprisonment for a healthy amount of time. So much so that some of them are afraid to browse the internet now for fear of coming across something like that. Which sadly, as referenced above is all too common a thing.

I suppose what should be asked here is how do you actually prevent this? Or how do you define child molestation here in Texas a 18 year old boy with a 40 IQ was recently imprisoned for life for apparently playing doctor with a neighbors kid. ...I don't know if you know what a 40 IQ means, but he basically shouldn't even be held responsible for his actions, perhaps watched a bit more closely but I doubt there was a criminal intent there, I doubt if he even has a proper concept of right and wrong.

When seeing things like this I don't think just blindly reacting does anyone any good. I think there should be more questions asked, instead of just reactions. Blind reactions don't prevent anything, in fact they often escalate a situation to a worse state than it was before.

Just some food for thought I suppose.

 

[Amnestic]

Therefore, unless I'm mistaken, "child" porn could be a 19 year old.

Sexual age of consent in Japan is 13 years of age. I'm not an internet lawlyer but I would like to posit that 'child porn' constitutes as those under the age of 13 in this case.

In Canada, the age of consent is 16, but possesing images of people under the age of 18 is considered the crime of "possesing child pornography" or whatever it's called. I doubt Canada is the wild card country in terms of that policy.

Fair enough. Now that you mention it I think Britain has the same thing...

In which case, I don't know. You'd have to ask a lawyer of some variety who knows plenty about the intricacies of Japanese law. Sadly, I'm not one such person.

Dude, Im suprised they havnt made a child porn game yet.

America has a higher percentage of child porn cases than Japan.

Shouldn't you be saying this about your own country?

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

I think the description "flawed genii" fits Japan aptly.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Child porn is legal in Japan? Really?

So why did I get put on probation for saying, "At this rate we're going to have to nuke them again"? As far as I'm concerned it's true.

CP is legal, all those other demented sexual things are everywhere, and yet Japan's suicide rate is still so high. You'd at least think these things would keep them happy.

 

[NoTroll]

Considering the amount of people that are in the country, that's not a huge number.

The age of consent probably doesn't help a great deal either, as well as the lolicon. It's the way the society works to be honest. I believe I saw somewhere that 2 years ago there were 2100 child porn cases in the U.S. alone.

That's proportionally more than Japan. In fact, proportionally that's about twice as much as Japan if it really was 2100 cases and my mental maths isn't failing me. Go find a source to confirm pleasssseeeee.

This wasn't it, but it says it a few paragraphs down. http://cyberlaw.org.uk/2008/08/31/us-feds-push-child-porn-cases-penalty-can-be-years-in-prison/

I'll see if I can get a graph of some sort.

Thanks.

For people who didn't read that, it says:

Child-porn crimes have gone from a rarity on federal court dockets to a phenomenon, with prosecutions jumping nationally from a scant 30 in 1995 to more than 2,100 last year, according to a Mercury News analysis of Justice Department data maintained by Syracuse University.?

2,100 in a country with a population of 307,088,000 for America.
382 in a country with a population of 127,433,494 for Japan.

So I was right. Congratulations America, you're worse for child pornography than Japan. /very slow golfclap.

Would you look at that.

 

[Ushario]

Shouldn't you be saying this about your own country?

Considering that there are games that depict under-age women being raped, I'm not sure he should be pointing his finger at the USA. Those games are perfectly legal as well.

There was a news article here on the Escapist about the game Rapelay in which you can rape a 13 year old.

 

[Megacherv]

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/no-of-child-porn-cases-victims-jumps-to-record-highs

The number of child pornography cases and victims soared to record highs in the first half of this year, a police survey showed Thursday, with Japan failing to create effective countermeasures despite criticism that it proliferates child porn images via the Internet. The number of victims rose to 218 over the six months through June, up 51.4% from the same period last year, and the number of cases police found hit 382, up 27.3%, according to the National Police Agency survey.

Japan does not prohibit the possession of child porn images and faces international criticism for being child pornography?s global supplier through the Internet. Recent parliamentary debate to tighten regulations on child pornography came to a halt as the House of Representatives was dissolved in July for a general election.

The agency attributed the sharp increases in the figures partly to enhanced crackdown efforts, but still called it ??only the tip of the iceberg.??

The survey showed the number of people found involved in producing and distributing child pornography rose 53.7% to 289.

Meanwhile, cases of child abuse crackdowns dropped slightly from the record figure marked in the first half of last year to 157, down 3.1%, involving 165 suspects, the same as in last year?s survey. The number of child deaths caused by abuse was 11, down 62.1%, it said.

Any thoughts? This surprises me. I didn't know Japan was full of pedophiles! *looks up definition of "loli"* Oh.

Japan's legal age is 13, so to them some of it might be legal but not to the rest of the world...

 

[Amnestic]

Shouldn't you be saying this about your own country?

Considering that there are games that depict under-age women being raped, I'm not sure he should be pointing his finger at the USA. Those games are perfectly legal as well.

There was a news article here on the Escapist about the game Rapelay in which you can rape a 13 year old.

I'm fully aware of the Japanese eroge market.

Why then - with all their supposed child porn and rape games - are their Child Porn percentage figures less than America (see the post at the top of page 2), hmm? I'd love a non-emotional response to this question for once.

 

[Silly_Billy]

I like how everyone here has a double standard for the Japanese.
EXAMPLE "The child porn cases jump to record high..." "THOSE SICK MOTHER-F*CKERS!!!" "... in Japan" "Oh, Japan, you so crazy."

 

[Icehearted]

You expected different from a culture that invented Loli and..the tentacle pr0n..thing..

Japan is a leader in robotics and such, it's just a shame they're also a leader in the rest of the crazy shit going on in the world too.

You about too the words right out of my mouth. Didn't they have to create women's only trains a few years ago to curtail their men groping school girls problem? I remember reading about that somewhere.

 

[NoTroll]

Shouldn't you be saying this about your own country?

Considering that there are games that depict under-age women being raped, I'm not sure he should be pointing his finger at the USA. Those games are perfectly legal as well.

There was a news article here on the Escapist about the game Rapelay in which you can rape a 13 year old.

I'm fully aware of the Japanese eroge market.

Why then - with all their supposed child porn and rape games - are their Child Porn percentage figures less than America (see the post at the top of page 2), hmm? I'd love a non-emotional response to this question for once.

You are correct Amnestic, Japan has less child porn, both in percentage and number, than America. People just get very emotional when Japan is brought up.

 

[Connor Lonske]

One out of every five hentai comics/movies have drawn kids doing sexual things. Its even legal there, And almost all of specialized fetishes in hentai have kids, mostly omorashi. If you don't know what omorashi is, google it.