{"id":42547,"date":"2023-02-21T14:57:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=42547"},"modified":"2023-02-21T14:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:57:49","slug":"what-are-ages-of-consent-around-the-world-japan-to-raise-age-from-13-to-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/21\/what-are-ages-of-consent-around-the-world-japan-to-raise-age-from-13-to-16\/","title":{"rendered":"What are ages of consent around the world? Japan to raise age from 13 to 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39788\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Japan-child-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Japan-child-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Japan-child-770x730.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Japan-child-360x341.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Japan-child.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Japan<\/a>\u00a0is set to increase the age of\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/consent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">consent<\/a>\u00a0from 13 to 16 as part of new legislation, as the country\u2019s current\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">laws<\/a> have been criticised for failing to protect children from sexual abuse. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/newslondon\/what-are-ages-of-consent-around-the-world-japan-to-raise-age-from-13-to-16\/ar-AA17KDyA?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=28cf3638a3dd4c509b468c8ba5a6b328\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Japan\u00a0is set to increase the age of\u00a0consent\u00a0from 13 to 16 as part of new legislation, as the country\u2019s current\u00a0laws have been criticised&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/age-of-consent.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42549,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547\/revisions\/42549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}