After reading an article which talk about a Japanese football player being caught having sex with a 15 year old, well not caught in the act, but caught after he left his wallet in the basket of her bicycle (ooops), I thought that I would check out the age of consent and found this website (http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm)I had not realised that the age was 13 in Japan. Rather low for a country so sexually repressed that sex education is not taught at school. But pretty nifty for avoiding scandals, which the Japanese love to do. So there you go. And for those interested, here is the article about the Japanese footballer: http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6930227,00.html
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http://soccerphile.blogspot.com/2007/06/japanese-soccer-news.html