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Kyuu said:
Hiku said:


As for the age of consent, in Japan it's 13 while in the US it's 16 at the lowest, and 18 at the highest.

I could have sworn it was 16... just shows how little i know. If that were an Islamic country you wouldn't hear the end of it.

In practice it's not really 13.  Each prefecture is able to set their own age of consent.  13 is the minimum that they are allowed to set it to.  This obviously seems low, but keep in mind this law was established in 1907.  You could argue that they could and should change it, but I don't believe any prefecture has the age set at 13, so it's kind of a moot point.