Stopthatgirl7May 8, 2024

'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch

https://lemmy.world/post/15180774

'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch - Lemmy.World

The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation of Child Prostitution & Pornography law in Japan, after it came to light that he had paid an underage girl for sexual intercourse. The latest case involved a 17-year-old high school girl from Yokohama. Investigators believe Itou knew the girl was a minor when he paid her 30,000 yen for having sexual intercourse at his residence in December 2023. He is also suspected of taking and saving photographs of the act.

Show threadotpMay 8, 2024
30,000 Yen is only about $300 in USD (using the “move the decimal point” method). That’s a pretty cheap price…but it’s probably going to cost him a lot more, especially if they find any photos
Show threadjordanlundMay 8, 2024

Current conversion puts it at $192. But yeesh…

Here’s the kicker though… Japan JUST raised the age of consent from 13 to 16 LAST YEAR(!)

pbs.org/…/japan-raises-the-age-of-sexual-consent-…

Japan raises the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, which was among the world's lowest

Japan's parliament has raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world's lowest, amid calls for greater protection of children and women.

PBS News
Show threadyukichigai

If you compare that to the average cost of living in Japan it's a bit closer to $300 in terms of spending power.

Either way it's a lot cheaper than I'd expect to have to pay anyone for sex work, much less something that blatantly illegal.

May 9, 2024 at 1:29amWeb