Politicians increased the age limit amid an overhaul of sex-crimes laws, but advocates of stricter legislation say more is needed to protect women and girls.
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Japanese men have more opportunities than the nation's women in education, employment and society in general. Equality activists are "not optimistic" that effective change will happen anytime soon. But what if it could?
Insulting someone on the internet could now land you in prison in Japan, as the country's parliament amended laws imposing harsher penalties for online insults. Legislation to stiffen the existing penal code was passed by the Diet on Monday (June 13), with anyone convicted of using abusive language to insult a person in a public setting, including online, now facing.