In 2023, the police in Japan cleared over two thousand cases of forcible sexual intercourse and close to five thousand cases of forcible indecencies. That year, the number of recognized rape cases amounted to over 2.7 thousand.
In 2017, amendments to the Penal Code expanded the definition of rape, which up to that point was interpreted as forced vaginal intercourse, to also include forced anal and oral sex.
Number of cases of forcible sexual intercourses and indecencies cleared by the police in Japan from 2014 to 2023
Provisions of the Penal Code was partially revised (enforced on July 13, 2017); "Rape" was redefined as "Forcible Sexual Intercourse", in accordance with the revision of the constitutive elements of rape.
Figures prior to 2019 are from the previous reporting.
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