Currently, Japan has the lowest age of consent in developed countries ... not guilty of raping a woman who had passed out from drinking because he "misunderstood" that she consented to having ...

The legal smoking and drinking age in Japan is 20 and the JGA’s code of conduct prohibits gymnasts from doing either during ...

Japan has marked Coming of Age Day, a national holiday in which those ... Eighteen-year-olds in Japan will still be banned from drinking alcohol, smoking, gambling and adopting children: they ...

The Japan Gymnastics Association has decided not to penalize Shoko Miyata, a national team member who withdrew from the Paris Olympics after admitting to underage drinking and smoking when she was 19.

Bucking the age-old stereotype of hard-drinking ... In Shibuya, the newly opened Sumadori Bar--a play on the Japanese words for “smart drinking”--offers elaborate, sugary cocktails that ...

The term "nominication" comes from combining nomi, meaning “drinking” in Japanese, and the English “communication ... When responses were sorted by age, a majority of all age groups said nominication ...