Sources: CNN
Japanese citizens vote for 125 of the 248 members of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the National Diet. 2025-07-20
The South Korean National Police Agency announces an investigation into the messaging app Telegram for abetting and hosting chat rooms that distribute deepfake pornography, including of children. 2024-09-2
A report to the Japanese National Diet revealed that from the end of World War II to 1996 over 25,000 Japanese citizens were forcibly sterilized under their eugenics law, including two nine-year-olds. 2023-06-19
Japanese National Diet member Tsukasa Akimoto of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is arrested for allegedly receiving up to ¥3 million in bribes from a Chinese company interested in setting up a casino in the country. 2019-12-25
Around 337 people in a dozen countries are arrested for participating in a child pornography network that hosted up to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse. Officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and South Korea called it one of the largest child pornography operations to date. 2019-10-16
The Japanese Diet passes an anti-terrorism law that has been accused by critics as a threat to freedom. 2017-06-15
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle reaches a plea deal with U.S. federal prosecutors in Indianapolis. Fogle will plead guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with at least two teenage girls. Under the deal, he will serve from 5 to 12½ years in prison, and will also pay $1.4 million in restitution to 14 victims. 2015-08-20
The National Diet of Japan votes to lower the voting age from 20 to 18. 2015-06-17
The New York Court of Appeals, in The People v. James Kent, rules that merely viewing child pornography (or having a cache of it, as on a cell phone), despite its offensiveness, is not in itself illegal in the state, so long as one is not aware of the cache or did not download the images onto a drive in order to view them; state legislators have stated they will work to close those loopholes through formulation of legislation. Distribution, production, and purposeful possession would still be illegal.2012-05-8
Approximately 107 people are charged with possessing offensive child pornography in Austria. 2010-12-19