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16-year-old Japanese girls will no longer be allowed to marry, age of legal adulthood moves to 18 | SoraNews24 -Japan News-
![PALM BEACH, FL - WEEK OF APRIL 16: First Lady Melania Trump and Mrs. Akie Abe, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, tour the Henry Flagler Museum, Wednesday, April 18, 2018, PALM BEACH, FL - WEEK OF APRIL 16: First Lady Melania Trump and Mrs. Akie Abe, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, tour the Henry Flagler Museum, Wednesday, April 18, 2018,](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/MDX9TT/palm-beach-fl-week-of-april-16-first-lady-melania-trump-and-mrs-akie-abe-wife-of-japanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-tour-the-henry-flagler-museum-wednesday-april-18-2018-in-palm-beach-fl-the-120-year-old-gilded-age-estate-known-as-whitehall-was-built-in-1902-by-henry-morrison-flagler-people-president-donald-trump-MDX9TT.jpg)
PALM BEACH, FL - WEEK OF APRIL 16: First Lady Melania Trump and Mrs. Akie Abe, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, tour the Henry Flagler Museum, Wednesday, April 18, 2018,
![Japanese students launch petition to get the country's age of consent raised from 13 to 16 | Daily Mail Online Japanese students launch petition to get the country's age of consent raised from 13 to 16 | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/22/21/35976940-8975673-More_than_40_000_people_have_signed_a_petition_calling_for_Japan-m-94_1606079503150.jpg)
Japanese students launch petition to get the country's age of consent raised from 13 to 16 | Daily Mail Online
Considering in Japan the school year runs from 1 April and ends 31 March, a 13 years old whose birthday is 4 December (that is, it's turning 14 that year) would be
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