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12-year-olds to go to reformatory Governing bloc lawmakers vowed April 17 to enact legislation during the current Diet session to lower to 12-years-old the minimum age someone can be sent to a reformatory, modifying an earlier government-proposed plan to do away with the minimum age altogether. The current minimum age is 14. Although coalition lawmakers will seek support for the legislation from the opposition camp, the governing bloc plans to push it through a Lower House panel for adoption regardless of such consent, making passage likely in the current session.
The Japan Times Weekly: April 21, 2007 |
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