A self-employed man from Hyogo Prefecture and two other men have been arrested for allegedly forcing his daughter to appear in child porn videos, investigative sources said Friday. The eldest daughter of the 46-year-old man told the Metropolitan Police Department that she had been forced ...
A council of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported to Gov. Yuriko Koike on Tuesday that the metropolis should ban and penalize the act of encouraging children to send selfies online to protect them from falling prey to child pornography. The metropolitan government will begin the ...
The number of minors targeted for sex crimes over social media sets a record amid a lack of education and parental monitoring, a police report says.
The spike in reported cases announced by the National Police Agency on Thursday was attributed to increased awareness and enforcement.
Human rights activists urged Japanese authorities this week to crack down on child pornography, which is still widely available despite a government overhaul of laws to protect children from sexual exploitation. Japan joined other major developed nations in 2014 and criminalized the possession of child ...
Japan saw a record number of minors fall prey to molestation, prostitution and other crimes via social networking services or online community spaces last year, and nearly all of the victims were female, police said Thursday. The number of victims under 18 rose to 1,652, ...
A record-high 37,020 minors aged under 18 were sent to child welfare authorities as suspected victims of child abuse in 2015, police reported Thursday.
A 55-year-old graphic designer from Gifu has been found guilty of child pornography offenses in the first such ruling relating to computer graphics. The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday sentenced Akashi Takahashi to one year in prison, suspended for three years, and ordered a ¥300,000 ...
A former principal of a Yokohama public junior high school who was arrested for allegedly taking pictures of sexual acts with teenage girls in Manila has received a suspended two-year prison term. According to the Yokohama District Court ruling handed down Friday, Yuhei Takashima, 65, ...
More inmates are in U.S. military prisons for sex crimes against children than for any other offense, an Associated Press investigation has found, but an opaque justice system prevents the public from knowing the full scope of the crimes or how much time the ...
Dismayed at entrenched child pornography in Japan, organizations petition the welfare minister to crack down on the sexual abuse of minors.
The number of children under 18 who have become victims of child pornography in Japan rose to a record-high 383 in the first half of 2015, up 58 from the year before, a police report showed Thursday. The preliminary report by the National Police Agency ...
