Category Archive for : ‘JAPAN’

Japan’s lower house of Parliament today banned the production and sale of child pornography and outlawed sex with a minor, answering mounting criticism over the country’s lax sex-crime laws.  The new law bans the sale, distribution, production, possession and trading of child pornography and imposes punishments of up to three years in prison or fines of up to $24,400 for violators.  The legislation also makes it illegal to have sex with a minor 17 or younger.  Violators will face a prison term of up to three years and fines of

According to the Asahi News Service, although Asian nations such as Thailand and the Philippines have enacted domestic laws to punish adults who sexually exploit children, the measures cannot eradicate all the problems because many crimes are committed by foreign tourists, ECPAT (End Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Asia) reports.  ECPAT is a coalition of agencies and individuals seeking to prevent the global sexual exploitation of children.  Sexual exploitation of children is a form of slavery and the gravest infringement of a child’s rights.  More than 1 million children enter

It is estimated by Interpol, the international police organization that 80 percent of the world’s commercial child pornography materials found on the Internet are suspected to be produced or distributed from Japan.  According to the Asahi News Service, Japan’s lack of restrictions on distributing child pornography through the Internet could seriously interfere with international attempts to fight the pedophilia crimes.

Europeans were shocked out of complacency in 1996 after a Belgian man suspected of having links with a child pornography ring was arrested after the bodies of seven girls