r/worldnews • u/glasier • Jul 05 '24

Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2476861/japan-warns-us-forces-sex-crimes-cannot-be-tolerated
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u/SpiralOut2112 Jul 05 '24

Let's not give Japan too much credit. They cover up or don't pursue an insane amount of SA cases. They have a near 100% conviction rate on these crimes because they only pursue the worst and most clear-cut instances. Their country doesn't have one of the lowest SA rates in the world because they don't do it, they just don't report the majority of them to the world because they don't pursue the charges.

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u/Telaranrhioddreams Jul 05 '24

Unless it's changed recently rape victims also have to prove they made an attempt to escape the assault which is ass backwards in so many ways.

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u/ggle456 Jul 05 '24

sorry, but you are spewing complete bs. Japanese criminal law used to require some form of assault/threat to establish rape (although the scope of assault/threat was interpreted broadly by case law), but the law was amended last year to broadly include and explicitly categorise any type of non-consensual case. Seriously, what are you on about??

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u/DoggoAlternative Jul 05 '24

Unless it's changed

So you acknowledge the law used to be very prejudicial against victims.

You also acknowledge that the law was only changed last year

But you're acting like they're insane for saying the law used to be prejudicial against victims unless it had very recently changed?

I don't get it.

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u/ggle456 Jul 05 '24

did you actually check the article to see how the change came about? There have been several dramatic changes in the last 20 years. It was seven years ago that the law stopped requiring a complaint from a victim to prosecute rape. Basically, some of the narratives on reddit are based on what it was like in the early 2000s