'Little idols': Japan's dark obsession with young girls
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gogogo
Jan. 28, 2018 07:10 am JST
Gross and should be illegal like most other 1st world countries. If Japan wants to up their image for 2020 they need to set an example and stamp this pedo stuff out.
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since1981
Jan. 28, 2018 07:23 am JST
How on earth can a parent stand by knowing that gross elderly guys are sexually objectifying their child? There isn't enough money on earth that would convince me to sell out my daughters!
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ifd66
Jan. 28, 2018 07:30 am JST
There was a very good BBC documentary on this recently - very revealing but ultimately disturbing.
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thepersoniamnow
Jan. 28, 2018 08:02 am JST
Explain it away all you want. At the end of the day Japan has a nasty problem that is shamefully promoted. I donโt need it wrapped up and 11th century literature stuck in to make it โculturalโ.
11th century sexual culture wasnโt any good.
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Daniel Naumoff
Jan. 28, 2018 08:05 am JST
I can't believe this insight into modern Japanese culture is finally here.
Embrace the reality, minna.
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Bee
Jan. 28, 2018 08:06 am JST
Said by gogogo lol, with a naked pict and a gross name. How convincing. and whereโs the picture of the 6 year old girl performing? that picture blurry AF. no picture? Then this Article didnโt happen.
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Tillmon
Jan. 28, 2018 08:09 am JST
I am truly shocked by the casual attitude of the society as a whole. This is so destructive especially the child!
The future of the Japanese people is at stake.
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Luddite
Jan. 28, 2018 08:22 am JST
How can people think sexualising children is an alright thing to do.
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Kobe White Bar Owner
Jan. 28, 2018 08:23 am JST
"Psychiatrist Hiroki Fukui, who also treats pedophiles, says the awareness in Japan that children need to be protected from potential sexual predators is "so low."
As the father of a girl i hope this man child part of j mens is addressed soon and leaves say with the olympics and smoking in public to boot.
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KnowBetter
Jan. 28, 2018 08:35 am JST
Ooooh, and here I thought by young girls in the title they meant girls in their mid teens and thought, "yeah, it's quite pervy". Now, I read further and find out that they are into six year olds, BEYOND CREEPY AND WRONG.
This is the part of Japan that really makes me feel quite sad for it. When will they ever grow up?!
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Yubaru
Jan. 28, 2018 08:57 am JST
Japan's battle against paedophilia is well documented. The number of minors abused in child pornography has risen five-fold in the past decade, according to official figures.
"Official" figures are sadly just the tip of the surface, and if they say that Japan's "battle" is well documented, I would strongly suggest that they are loosing the war!
It's crap like this that promotes it!
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CrazyJoe
Jan. 28, 2018 09:00 am JST
"Police have failed to stamp out so-called JK (joshi kosei, or high school girls) businesses, which offer men services such as going for a walk with a teenage girl so the customers have a chance to negotiate for sex."
I lived and worked in Japan for 3 years, and I love the culture. But it is a completely different culture from ours, especially in matters sexual, as far as I could tell as an outsider.
The age of consent is 13, and there seems to be little shame attached to sex - they seem to have a much more matter of fact view of it as a physical need that is satisfied in various ways, all of which would cause considerable social approbation in ours. So, it is a little hard to judge them this particular sexual subculture from so far away.
Standard Western feminist theory or traditional Judaeo-Christian morality don't seem to fit very well and have limited explanatory power. The nuances and tensions, and so the power equations and exploitation, if any, is quite different from what we understand.
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quercetum
Jan. 28, 2018 09:01 am JST
Gotta take a shower after reading this. 40 year olds into 6 year olds. repulsive. And yet some will say her parents support the girlโs idol career like parents of Olympic aspiring figure skaters or gymnasts.
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pacint
Jan. 28, 2018 09:07 am JST
Stuff I can't wrap my head around.
BTW, AOG n Japan is 13 but prefectures can set it above and most set it to 16-18.
Back home AOG is 14(all types of sex), quirk of the law 2 13yr olds can legally share a bed but no touching. Huh?
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Strangerland
Jan. 28, 2018 09:14 am JST
Not really. There isnโt anywhere in the country where you can legally sleep with a 13 year old.
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Haaa Nemui
Jan. 28, 2018 09:18 am JST
Yeah I've always found the pageant thing for children to be beyond creepy. This is worse with the sheer number of grown men idolizing kids they have no relationship with at all. Whether in an innocent way (I'm not sure any would be) or fetishist way. It's creepy. I don't understand why parents would stand by and let it happen either. Really weird.
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pacint
Jan. 28, 2018 09:20 am JST
AOC refers to the age that 2 minors can have sex (accidently wrote AOG).
This does NOT mean that a minor can have legally sex with an Adult.
Seen many stories where teens had a relationship but the one to gain majority got jailed.
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pacint
Jan. 28, 2018 09:21 am JST
Majority = majority first
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lostrune2
Jan. 28, 2018 09:23 am JST
"On television, you see kids acting in dramas and commercials. In magazines, children are modelling clothes. What Ai is doing is not much different," she says, despite the audience for idol shows being mainly adult males.
The normalization / indoctrination / grooming starts early
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econstats
Jan. 28, 2018 09:23 am JST
Given what is happening in US gymnastics where over 100 girls were sexual abused and the ongoing Harvey Harvey Weinstein case, and let us not forget the catholic church child abuse case were thousands of child were sexual abused, I don't think anyone has the right to point the finger at Japan.
Here is another story from the the west:
Rotherham(UK) child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds
Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated, it said.
Do you feel sad for the Children in the West? After reading the above?
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Kabukilover
Jan. 28, 2018 09:25 am JST
Six year old girl leered at by middle aged men? What sort of sicko fantasies are these guys thinking? The reality is that six year old children throw tantrums in public places while their parents assume a state of catatonic indifference. What is the least bit alluring in that?
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Strangerland
Jan. 28, 2018 09:28 am JST
I don't think anyone has the right to point the finger at Japan. Do you.
Yes. Anyone who isnโt a pedophile has the right to point all they want. Pedophilia criticism should not be stifled due to some perceived yet non-existent hypocrisy.
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Kobe White Bar Owner
Jan. 28, 2018 09:30 am JST
"So, it is a little hard to judge them this particular sexual subculture from so far away. " Are you saying its ok to sexualise 6 year old girls. I'm in japan and ill judge them as messed up man children who need a good slap in the chops!
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Haaa Nemui
Jan. 28, 2018 09:35 am JST
@econstats - different situations. The situations you mention are all valid reasons for outrage but none of them are situations which put the children on display, rather crimes happening in private or secretive situations. Still no less disgusting. Not saying the situation in Japan is worse. but it does seem there may be less protection for children in some ways at least.
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Kobe White Bar Owner
Jan. 28, 2018 09:48 am JST
Granted this stuff does happen elsewhere BUT for it to be socially "acceptable" and these creatures having no shame about it take it to a whole nother level and with such prevalence. Personally i think its a side effect of being squeezed into cookie pigeon holes and independence being squashed from such a young age.
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stocktrader
Jan. 28, 2018 09:59 am JST
It is the innocents they crave. Straight up pedos. Someone ought to take a camera of the customers and post their picture on an online bullitin board as a WARNING of a sexual predator.
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lostrune2
Jan. 28, 2018 10:16 am JST
I don't think anyone has the right to point the finger at Japan. Do you. Yes. Anyone who isnโt a pedophile has the right to point all they want. Pedophilia criticism should not be stifled due to some perceived yet non-existent hypocrisy.
Happens in both West and Japan. The common wisecrack about these West vs. Japan is: in the West, it's illegal and abnormal - in Japan, it's legal and normal. Lol
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Disillusioned
Jan. 28, 2018 10:29 am JST
It is nothing short of a mental illness! Many Japanese men seem to never get older than 13 (mentally and emotionally). I guess you could call them, morally retarded. However, you also have to consider the girls. They are just as responsible for this illness with all this idol crap. I'm sure some of them are duped into performing, but the majority enjoy their 15 minutes of fame and exploitation. This 'illness' started in Japan, but it has spread to many other Asian countries as well, Taiwan, S/Korea, Thailand and more. Next time you are on a train watch the J-men when a group of school girls get on the train. They will always check them out from head to toe and you can see their twisted little minds making up sexual scenarios with these little girls. It makes me want to smack them in the back of the head! They are sick!
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Andrew Crisp
Jan. 28, 2018 10:40 am JST
Here we go Foreigners lecturing the Japanese about Sexuality when in America they have beauty pageants for six years.
CrazyJoeToday 09:00 am JST The age of consent is 13, and there seems to be little shame attached to sex - they seem to have a much more matter of fact view of it as a physical need that is satisfied in various ways, all of which would cause considerable social approbation in ours. So, it is a little hard to judge them this particular sexual subculture from so far away. Standard Western feminist theory or traditional Judaeo-Christian morality don't seem to fit very well and have limited explanatory power. The nuances and tensions, and so the power equations and exploitation, if any, is quite different from what we understand.
My last trip to Japan I attended a free concert of one of these so called "girl groups" the guys were all singing along I never witnessed anything negative happening every one was having a great time.
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BurakuminDes
Jan. 28, 2018 10:42 am JST
Given what is happening in US gymnastics where over 100 girls were sexual abused and the ongoing Harvey Harvey Weinstein case, and let us not forget the catholic church child abuse case were thousands of child were sexual abused, I don't think anyone has the right to point the finger at Japan.
Really? So these JAPANESE activists, lawyers, NGOs, psychiatrists cited in the article - and elsewhere - have "no right to point the finger" at this sexualisation of little girls in their OWN country? Because child abuse has also happened abroad? No logic whatsoever there.
Any culture that does not fight the sexualisation of children is a failed culture. I wish these good Japanese activists all the best in their fight .
"We need to realise this situation in Japan is not normal." - Psychiatrist Hiroki Fukui. Couldnt put it any better.
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clamenza
Jan. 28, 2018 10:42 am JST
The age of consent is 13, and there seems to be little shame attached to sex - they seem to have a much more matter of fact view of it as a physical need that is satisfied in various ways, all of which would cause considerable social approbation in ours. So, it is a little hard to judge them this particular sexual subculture from so far away. Standard Western feminist theory or traditional Judaeo-Christian morality don't seem to fit very well and have limited explanatory power. The nuances and tensions, and so the power equations and exploitation, if any, is quite different from what we understand.
Please allow me to paraphrase