Violence Against Japanese Women

Current Situation About Sexual crimes in Japan

# In terms of gender equality, Japan ranks 110th out of 149 countries.

# 7.8% of Japanese women have experienced sexual intercourses.

# Primarily victims of rape and and sexual violence is mainly minor, the rates are 41.6% and 52.5% respectively.

Many female people held 'flower demo' around Japan. The left woman in the picture is holding the panel writing about 'Don't forgive sexual violence'.

#In 2017, Japanese penal code made the definion of 'rape' altered to move beyond veginal penetration by a penis.

#The ratification allowed sexual crimes to be persued even in the case of sexual victims do not file charges.

Assumption about sexual assaults without any grounds

For example...

・Sexual assaults are done by people who don't know victims

→Sexual activities with someone you know is not rape.

・Criminals of sexual assaults are signidicantly lack of ethnics and phychonic

→Sexual activity with a regular person is not rape.

・Sexual assaults are done at road and park during night

→Sexual Activity inside a home in a hotels is not rape.

・Victims refuse sex to protect their virtue.

→Sexual activity with someone has lack of sense of virtue is not rape.

Other Issues of Japanese Justice

・The protection of the crime of rape serves the "sexual integrity of women."

・When the victim is 13 years of age or older, it requires 'force or coercion' as sexual means.

・The act of commission' specified in the crime of rape refers solely to 'sexual intercourse' (genital penetration).

References

ja (jst.go.jp)

03_ 嘉門優【論説】 smd (ritsumei.ac.jp)

*CH008 9781801171304 91..104 (emerald.com)

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