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Is This Sex Offender Map in Japan Legal?
Japan still has no official sexual offender database. Someone just launched one - and experts say it may well be illegal.
In 2024, after reading about how five men had drugged and gang-raped a young girl, Yoshilog posted on X about how Japan should have a public sex offender registry like the United States. The controversial project launched in 2019 but was shut down by the government’s Committee on Personal Information Protection for violating people’s privacy rights and subjecting them to harassment while providing no material public benefit. “This ‘end’ will be a big step forward in making it crystal clear that Japanese society, the law, and its systems are failing to put measures in place to protect kids from sex offenders.”
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