Meet the judge who suspended a child rapist's sentence because his victim was "older than her chronological age"

[AshleyYakeley]

@wysinwyg

However in April 1999 the Japanese parliament wrote into law The ChildWelfare Act which changed the age of consent to 18 and the age ofmajority to the age of 20. (The Child Welfare Act [1999] Articles 2and 3 respectively) It also restated that the legal age of marriage tobe no less than 16 for females and 18 for males but only afterparental consent.

I think I might delete this from that page, as it’s not supported by the reference.