I was right! Take that you Naysayers. Confirmation on a character's age.

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Not defending Japan. But Japan just has a different way of thinking and doesn't really see eye to eye on a lot of issues that the West has. But because western culture is big, influential, and loud; they budge every now and then to fit in with the rest of the world. They are just often one of those "late to the party" types on issues because they lowkey wait long enough to see if there's backlash and we back peddle on things.

You are absolutely not wrong, but there is also a lot of “just let common sense sort it out”. Japan didn’t really need a law about it for years and years because (common sense), of course kids aren’t getting married and of course it’s gross for a 30-40 y.o. to date a teen. Honestly it was more flak about manga/media like gravure depicting underage kids in compromising situations that pushed for the law update.

A story I heard that is probably not true, but the point makes sense:

A guy once told me long ago in England when he was a kid, his teacher said there was a law dictating certain businesses can not be open on Sunday due to religious reasons, while in Scotland there was no such law. The teacher then asked which people were more pious.

After responses, the teacher said that the Scottish never considered needing that law because nobody would be open on Sunday anyway, whereas the English has to be told to give their workers a day off.

The guy was a Kiwi so no idea if he was just ranting against the English .

Basically, just because a law is as it is, doesn’t mean it is how things actually are, but rather there might not have been a need to update/make the law in the first place.