日本学生递交请愿书，要求将同意（性关系）年龄从13岁提高到16岁_风闻

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正文原创翻译：

Students submit petition to raise age of consent from 13 to 16

日本学生递交请愿书，要求将同意年龄从13岁提高到16岁。

A group of university students submitted a petition to the Justice Ministry on Nov. 20 requesting that the age of consent be raised from the current 13 to 16.

11月20日，一群大学生向司法部递交了一份请愿书，要求将同意年龄从目前的13岁提高到16岁。

The group called Your Voice Matters started a petition drive over the internet and collected about 40,000 signatures. The petition and request was addressed to Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa.

这个名为“你的声音很重要”的组织在互联网上发起了一场请愿活动，并收集了大约4万个签名。请愿书和请求被递交给了司法大臣上川阳子。

A 21-year-old senior at Kwansei Gakuin University in Hyogo Prefecture who is a member of the group said she had not realized the age of consent was set so low until she began studying the issue in university.

兵库县关西学院大学一名21岁的大四学生是该组织的成员，她说，直到她在大学开始研究这个问题时，她才意识到同意年龄被定得这么低。

“I was very surprised,” she recalled. “There were many people who signed the petition who also said they first realized what the consent age was through this effort.

“我非常惊讶，”她回忆说。“有很多人在请愿书上签名，他们还说，通过这项努力，他们第一次意识到同意年龄的重要性。

“It is important to raise the age of consent in order to protect minors who are still immature physically and psychologically from sex crimes in light of the fact sexual intercourse is not taught during compulsory education.”

“由于义务教育中不教导性行为，提高同意年龄对于保护生理和心理还不成熟的未成年人不受性犯罪的侵害是很重要的。”

Anyone having sex with a minor under 13 can be arrested for statutory rape under the Criminal Law, but charging someone with sex crimes for having intercourse with a person over the age of 13 requires proof of violent action or threats.

根据刑法，任何与13岁以下未成年人发生性关系的人都可以因法定强奸罪被逮捕，但对于与13岁以上未成年人发生性关系的人提起性犯罪指控，需要有暴力行为或威胁行为的证据。

Moreover, the victim must explain the extent to which they resisted in order to bring a charge of sexual assault.

此外，受害者必须解释他们抵抗的程度，以提出性侵犯的指控。

The request submitted by the students’ group explained that 13 was a low age from an international perspective and asked that it be raised to 16 when many children will have graduated from junior high school.

这个学生小组提交的申请解释说，从国际角度看，13岁是一个较低的年龄，并要求将其提高到16岁，这个年龄很多孩子将从初中毕业。

The petition stated that current curriculum guidelines for junior high school do not call for teaching about sexual intercourse, meaning students may not be fully informed about what constitutes sexual assault.

请愿书指出，目前初中的课程指导方针并没有要求讲授有关性行为的内容，这意味着学生可能无法完全了解什么是性侵犯。