https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65762707
Days after their rape, Megumi Okano says, they already knew the attacker would get away scot-free.
Megumi, who uses they as a personal pronoun, knew the man who did it, and where to find him. But Megumi also knew there would be no case, because Japanese authorities were not likely to consider what happened as rape.
So the university student decided not to report the incident to the police.
"As I couldn't pursue [justice] that way, he got to live a free and easy life. It is painful to me," Megumi says.
But change may be coming. The Japanese parliament is now debating a landmark bill to reform the country's sexual assault laws, only the second such revision in a century.
The bill covers a number of changes, but the biggest and most significant one will see lawmakers redefine rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to "non-consensual sexual intercourse" - effectively making legal room for consent in a society where the concept is still poorly understood.
Current Japanese law defines rape as sexual intercourse or indecent acts committed "forcibly" and "through assault or intimidation", or by taking advantage of a person's "unconscious state or inability to resist".
This is at odds with many other countries which define it more broadly as any non-consensual intercourse or sexual act - where no means no.
Activists argue that Japan's narrow definition has led to even narrower interpretations of the law by prosecutors and judges, setting an impossibly high bar for justice and fostering a culture of scepticism that deters survivors from reporting their attacks.
Can you imagine anyone wanting to rape this thing? And ofc they go by "they" pronouns JFL Japan is finished. They are importing western bullshit at record speeds. Basically the rest of the article goes on to talk about how people want the laws to change so that rape is defined more broadly. Basically it will be like the west where the only thing needed to get a man accused of rape will be a foid saying it happened. Japanese zoomers are completely cucked to western standards. They are all becoming gay and trans and want based shit like loli to be banned. If you had hope in Japan being a refuge from globohomo and foid bs, think again. Also most Japanese women cheat and most marriages there have dead bedrooms which is why the birthrate is so low.
Days after their rape, Megumi Okano says, they already knew the attacker would get away scot-free.
Megumi, who uses they as a personal pronoun, knew the man who did it, and where to find him. But Megumi also knew there would be no case, because Japanese authorities were not likely to consider what happened as rape.
So the university student decided not to report the incident to the police.
"As I couldn't pursue [justice] that way, he got to live a free and easy life. It is painful to me," Megumi says.
But change may be coming. The Japanese parliament is now debating a landmark bill to reform the country's sexual assault laws, only the second such revision in a century.
The bill covers a number of changes, but the biggest and most significant one will see lawmakers redefine rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to "non-consensual sexual intercourse" - effectively making legal room for consent in a society where the concept is still poorly understood.
Current Japanese law defines rape as sexual intercourse or indecent acts committed "forcibly" and "through assault or intimidation", or by taking advantage of a person's "unconscious state or inability to resist".
This is at odds with many other countries which define it more broadly as any non-consensual intercourse or sexual act - where no means no.
Activists argue that Japan's narrow definition has led to even narrower interpretations of the law by prosecutors and judges, setting an impossibly high bar for justice and fostering a culture of scepticism that deters survivors from reporting their attacks.
Can you imagine anyone wanting to rape this thing? And ofc they go by "they" pronouns JFL Japan is finished. They are importing western bullshit at record speeds. Basically the rest of the article goes on to talk about how people want the laws to change so that rape is defined more broadly. Basically it will be like the west where the only thing needed to get a man accused of rape will be a foid saying it happened. Japanese zoomers are completely cucked to western standards. They are all becoming gay and trans and want based shit like loli to be banned. If you had hope in Japan being a refuge from globohomo and foid bs, think again. Also most Japanese women cheat and most marriages there have dead bedrooms which is why the birthrate is so low.
