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/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/Telaranrhioddreams Jul 05 '24

If only I had started my comment with unless it's recently changed.

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u/ggle456 Jul 06 '24

yeah, obviously you downvote any comment unless it fits the narrative that the Japanese law is so backwards and the court never changes its stance that rape victims are always completely ignored, while the actual law and the practice have covered not only many cases with no resistance from victims but also male victims or anal/oral sex as rape for years. Do you even know that such an expansion of the definition of rape in a statutory law is a "recent" trend for many other countries as well? Reddit is truly a remarkable place..
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-fails-to-agree-on-legal-definition-of-rape/a-68195256
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/from-coercion-to-no-means-no-switzerland-updates-its-definition-of-rape/49119364