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However if you read the article again, it is nowhere written that this girl and the man with her did any obscene acts together.

The act of enticing a minor is enough to make the action illegal, she is a minor the man knew she was a minor, according to the article there is no doubt there was a crime. That of course in no way disproves that obscene acts with anybody under 18 years old is also against the law in Japan making 18 the age of consent for all practical purposes.

so there would be no crime if she'd told her parents she was going out and would be staying the night with a friend

Unless she actually said this friend was male and 20 years old it would only mean there would be no accusation only as long as the parents didn't find out.

The age of sexual consent is 16, full article see link below

This would contradict your own comment about statutory rape when the girl is 17, you are calling your own claim false.

Also, as long as you can't disprove that sexual acts with a minor are illegal that is means this is still a crime according to Japanese law. And again, this clearly explains why it is illegal to have pornography including anybody under 18 years old in Japan.

If by law sexual acts with a minor (under 18yo) are illegal that means that for all practical means this becomes the actual age where a person can consent.

Govt requirement at the end, business and consumer that need to pay the price.

Social media service providers? sure, that should be their duty from the beginning, lets see what happens when they try to pass that cost to costumers.

Then why not hold them accountable on economic issues high inflation, low child birth, stagnant wages, ghost towns.

People do hold them accountable on many different issues, there is nothing making impossible for people to change their vote if they consider the politician handle these things deficiently or incompetently.

No we can't do that because those are not hot button issues and are not endorsed by foreign investors.

Several of these issues do are considered "hot button" and politician make an effort to say how they will address them.

And unless you can provide evidence that foreign investors are interfering with an election it makes no sense to use this excuse to explain why people also give importance to this issue, it may be like your claim that foreigners were regularly involved in "violent yami baito" that ended up not being the case.

Yes, he invited her to visit him and she was showing up and got into his car. In no way she was forced to do that.

The law is not written badly, your assumption that being forced is required to be considered a kidnapping is what is wrong, in other countries luring or enticing a minor is also enough to commit a crime even without the victim being forced.

The fact that anybody under 18 is considered a minor in Japan, and that obscene acts with a minor are still illegal also remains, there is for example zero pornographic material that is legal and includes anyone under 18 years old precisely because of this reason.

If you argue that statutory rape applies for anybody under 18 you are just saying that the actual age of consent in Japan is 18yo with other words.

maybe be more specific with the details?

The article clearly says the man knew the victim was a minor, so more details become unnecessary and it is understandable that the police offers no more details to protect the victim.

But the girl visited him willingly right?

Enticing the girl is against the law, so he committed a crime.

This link is outdated

You don't bring any source that contradicts what is written in the reference (which is an active page from the government of Japan), you can't claim it is outdated without a valid reference that says sexual acts with a minor (under 18 years old) are not forbidden.

Unless you can bring a reference where ]

A) people under 18 are not considered a minor or

B) obscene actors with a minor are no longer considered illegal

Then your claim that the presented reference is outdated is not correct, it is still valid.

Yes he is committing a crime, but is it kidnapping?

Yes

Police said the man has admitted enticing the girl to stay with him, knowing she was a minor.

This is against Japanese law.

Age of consent is 16. It was 13 and they raised it to 16 in 2023. You are wrong on that.

The law consider anybody under 18 a minor, and is illegal to induce one to have sex, for all practical purpose this is the legal consent age.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/human/child/initialreport/definition.html

The Child Welfare Law additionally prohibits inducement of a person under 18 years of age to practice obscene acts.

Age of consent is 16 and the article states the girl is in her late teens.

No it is not, age of consent is 18, and the article clearly says the arrested man knew the girl was a minor, so he is willingly committing an illegal act.

I still stand by my statement nobody should be a burden to the systems call it subsidies but, afterall, someone else is paying for it.

Nobody is being a burden this is a perfectly desirable use for the taxes everybody (including the people using them) is paying. This argument is like saying that people that use public health are a burden o the people that don't but still pay their taxes, not a burden and definetely not a reason for saying these people should "Just pack and go" as you did, they are simply using part of the benefits the government make available for everybody and that the nation support.

When you gonna stop whining? Don't you understand the "The three satellites have already operated for longer than planned.

Again, making a valid criticism of a decision that cost lives is not whining, that is much more applicable to people that keep complaining about comments they don't like even when they can't argue against those comments. Eliminating from the budget replacement for the satellites is precisely what is being criticized for.

Do you need a lander to get there for repairs? If no, then be ready to pay for the services of the new systems.

Again, people will die because of this decision, they are the ones that will be affected, and dismissing their perfectly valid complains as whining just because you consider their lives disposable only leaves you in a terrible light.

I thought, I found a solution for you and those people through your government. Afterall it's about shared responsibilities.

Again, you called their demand for their lives to be prioritized whining, that is inappropriate and betrays a despective attitude over their perfectly valid and desirable demands. Calling for public attention for this unjustifiable situation born from greed is also something productive and desirable, and even better in no way hinders complaining to their representatives as well. People can do both things without any problem, no need to "stop" doing one to do the other, suggesting to do this makes no sense.

I don’t get why tax payers money have to be spent on helping stupidity.

At the level of national spending rescues represent a tiny microscopic fraction, nothing that would have an effect if dedicated to much bigger problems.

Terribly bad, unjustified decisions by politicians that waste trillions of yen on the other side are a much more easier target for criticism.

Agree. Although at the same time I worry about the ingenuity of these people, if it might just shift the problem to somewhere else.

Preventing people from taking their own lives is of course the main objective, but if a measure at least makes it much more difficult that other people become involved that also has a lot of value. A train driver can be left psychologically scarred by the experience and passengers inside the train or at the platform can also be injured in these kind of accidents.

The measures as described seem rational and proportionate, if this eliminates one of the excuses used by politicians to try and manipulate people with xenophobic accusations that would be an extra benefit.

So if Uniqlo wants to stack civil charges on top of criminal charges against someone who’s stolen from the chain, they’ll most likely have to hire an outside lawyer

I think Uniqlo will do it a few times to make the point and get in the news to disuade thieves, but it is very unlikely that this will become a default policy indefinitely.

Nothing wrong applying for subsidies,

This completely contradicts your previos comment about "Honestly, if you are not a company applying for government subsidies is not cool. Just pack and go"

but at least we should be ready to agree failures in our lives.

That you were wrong by criticizing that private citizens are not wrong by receiving subsidies is not that much of a failure, but if you want to recognize it as such you are free to do it.

Stop whining write to your Government urging them you need Satellite up up there.

Describing how the US government is actively degrading their response is not whining, that applies much more to complaining without merit about what other people argue. And the ones that need the Satellites functioning are those that are in the path of the natural disasters in the coming season.

Saying they are whining for demanding that their lives should be given a higher priority than budget cuts do not present you in a good light at all.

Honestly, if you are not a company applying for government subsidies is not cool. Just pack and go and find a cheaper life somewhere else.

The Japanese government says you are completely wrong and offer this help without problem, which is understandable since it is paid by our own taxes.

Saying people should leave the country for applying to subsidies makes absolutely no sense, it only reveals deep intolerance and a desire to attack others for no real reason.

They say it cause by children not getting enough sunshine

Who are "they"? because they are completely wrong. As the article helpfully explains acquired esotropia is being related to excessive time looking at screens very close to the eyes, no amount of "sunshine" would change anything if the patient does not reduce this excessive time.

It may be because the inability of the pupils to dialate

No it would not, because the condition is not about the eye inability to form a focused image but about strabismus, the inability of both eyes to move coherently to center in the object that the person is trying to focus on.

Rogue state America, stopping funding for very effective measures that prevent and limit the damage produced by natural disasters, and instead focusing on imaginary things like chemtrails, it is a laughing matter when it is about uneducated people having ridiculous beliefs, not at all when it is a national government since it guarantees that unnecessary deaths will importantly increase.

Well, perhaps reddit has become the Supreme Court.

What does the supreme court have to do with the recent toxicity of the comment section to be known in forums like Reddit. If anything it was you who wrote "Because I'm the rule" to supposedly justify going back on your word to keep the rules of the site.

Sincerely, I don't the guy was intending to hurt the feelings of the Noto people

That does not change the fact that his comment is deeply offensive and the reaction completely justifiable. Trying to justify what he did say by imagining things he did not say is not an argument.

The problem lies with the media adding fuel to the fire.

No, the problem is with a supposedly professional in politics making an unjustifiable comment that was obviously taken negatively by the victims and the public in general, that the media is reflecting this reaction is not a problem, what you are trying to say is that the media should not report the reaction because you personally don't think people should feel bad because their tragedies were described as something that was good to happen.

When some ‘expert’ collects and publishes the stats then you’ll be satisfied…

If, not when, and it does not have to be an expert. A journalist making an effort in a few years to follow up on the members and what happened with their lives would be perfectly fine.

Yes, that's exactly what Jay and I have been saying

When it was proved with several reports how RFKjr routinely lies for personal profit you claimed this was not true, but never provided any evidence to refute those reports. Ignoring serious conflicts of interest, incompetency and open lies when the person repeats what you want to believe is not at all agreeing "exactly" with the characterization of the real problem, it is claiming it only happens when valid medical authorities contradict you, which of course makes no sense.

This only means it will likely be only a fad that can completely disappear in a short time, I surely hope people will not invest too much in this thinking its global popularity is here to stay.

Because I'm the rule, what much can you do suspend me for 24 hours? That's the best time reading Tales of Genki.

Unfortunately this is a problem that is becoming more and more common here, people that come for the specific purpose of hindering the discussion for fun, openly taunting (and even threatening) other users or even the moderation. Seeing how this is apparently promoted now it is hardly surprised that more and more users end up having this attitude. It is even discussed in reddit etc.

Ahahaha. Wow. Ever heard of Vioxx? Thalidomide?

Are you confused? neither is used in the public as a vaccine. You are indirectly accepting that you could not find even one example of a vaccine being used whose safety and efficacy are not proved beyond any doubt by evidence, so you have to use completely unrelated things. By the way Thalidomide was NOT approved to be used by the public in the US, so your own examples prove you are wrong.

The rushed swine flu vaccine of 1976 that gave people Guillain-Barré syndrome? *

You mean the syndrom that is still astronomically more likely to happen with the infection than with the vaccine? because that already proves the opposite of your claim, not to count that this is (again) NOT a vaccine that is approved for use in the public, so you are again accepting none of the current ones have any problems, so you had to go and use one that is not in use.

CERTAIN mRNA vaccine introduced in 2021 that was pushed as a miracle, only to quietly backpedal 

No backpedaling, this is again you making the same false claim that no expert ever made.

The idea that every single vaccine for every illness, across all ages and risk profiles, is both necessary and risk-free is - unfortunately for you - pharmaceutical fan fiction. 

The simple fact that you could not find ANY vaccine that is currently approved and that it has not proved safety and efficacy actually proves yours are the claims that can be demonstrated as false.

Zero evidence of any problem with any current vaccine, so your claims about conspiracies to hide those problems are of course baseless as well.

Yes, vaccines have a long history of offering protection, by injecting a known amount of antigen

Not even remotely true, the first vaccines were attenuated viruses, which can produce uncharacterized proteins and whose expression can't be known, so from the very beginning vaccines have included unknown antigens in unknown quantities.

But in recent history, people have been subjected to injections laced with toxic metals

False, there is no such thing. Even thimerosal can't be described as a "toxic metal"

as well as gene therapies that reprogram your own cells (throughout your body, even crossing the blood brain barrier) to produce uncontrollable amounts of toxic antigens for many months, if not years...

Also false, the one that make the cells produce uncontrollable amount of antigens with demonstrated negative effects on the health are the pathogens in the actual infection, not the vaccines. Also "gene therapy" is nonsensical, specially when the actual viruses during the infection are the ones that are much more likely to produce changes in the genome than any vaccine ever.

People are rightfully upset

No, they are not, some people are upset because they are being manipulated by bad actors that are well known for lying for personal profit.

Hopefully, RFKjr will restore the integrity of the health authorities and institutions

The opposite, by terminating ethical committees, facilitating approval of drugs without proper testing, eliminating controls over the industry and replacing expertise with political appointees that have been repeatedly debunked he is already destrying the integrity of authorities and institutions, the US has become a rogue state scientifically speaking.

I'm sorry, but don't forget we had an influx of unvetted illegal immigrants from all over the world especially from developing countries, what would you expect? 

The same as other developed countries that also have important immigration of any type but that keep vaccination rates above the threshold of herd immunity. Easily contained outbreaks that never spread beyond a small area and number of patients.

But in the case of the US, with the degradation of public health services, rampant antiscientific bias of the current authorities and defunding of the agencies in charge of controlling threats to the public health this is the result. Spreading to levels comparable with very poor countries.

There just can't be any serious usecases or applications in industry

There are, which of course you keep trying to ignore because their existence completely debunks your claims.

because it is mathematically impossible for this pseudo technology to work properly and with sufficient reliability.

No, it is not, easily proved since every time anybody ask you for this supposed mathematical proof you have to accept there is no such thing.

What reliability problems you can identify with Alphafold for example?

None?

That is because contrary to what you claim there are successfully deployed AI tools.

Do you think he’s really glad that the earthquake struck? 

That is what he said, for all anybody knows he made a lot of profit (economical, political, etc.) from the disaster and he is much better now than if it never happened.

Have you yourselves ever phrased something wrong from what you were trying to convey? 

In something so tragic and delicate? no not at all. For a politician that is supposedly a professional in communicating this is much worse than a simple slip about some topic without relevance in a private conversation.

The media don't need to manipulate anybody to feel angered by this complete lack of tact, having any kind of relationship with the victims of the disaster would justify the reaction.