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  plasticmonkey at 08:09 AM JST - 28th October

  Why not raise the age to reflect reality?

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  namabiru4me at 08:16 AM JST - 28th October

  Kill this bill!

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  knackerz at 08:26 AM JST - 28th October

  plasticmonkey got it in one.

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  timorborder at 10:25 AM JST - 28th October

  Reduce the age of adulthood? As plastic monkey points out, if anything the age of adulthood should be raised in this country.

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  DarkKnghtZ at 10:28 AM JST - 28th October

  To about 28-30.

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  Altria at 10:29 AM JST - 28th October

  Keiko Chiba is as close to a bleeding heart liberal as you'll get in Japan. It's quite amusing watching the "send em' to the chair!111" hardliners splutter in outrage.

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  2020hindsight at 10:48 AM JST - 28th October

  What is the problem with this one? Most civilised countries in this world consider 16 is the age where someone becomes responsible for their actions.

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  smithinjapan at 10:57 AM JST - 28th October

  Another promise being backtracked?

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  drink_more_milk at 11:21 AM JST - 28th October

  Another nanny state in the making. While in reality Japanese people these days tend to be childish, petty and mature rather slowly, reducing the legal adult age would force young people to accept personal legal responsibility.

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  meloveulongtime at 01:22 PM JST - 28th October

  make it 16...I think a lot of men would be happy! ME!!!!

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  Yelnats at 02:27 PM JST - 28th October

  Age of adults here should be about 47 from the way I am thinking. My wife has two more years to go...can she do it? Nah

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  sf2k at 05:14 AM JST - 29th October

  I always appreciated the sense of a national coming of age party, seijin shiki, and it is unlikely to make any sense to change it as it would no longer have any meaning. When the trend is to live with your parents anyway well into adulthood, it flies in the face of reason to reduce the age. If it's not working at 20, it won't work any better at 18.

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