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National › Subcommittee proposes lowering legal age of adulthood to 18

Japan took a major step toward a historic change in the legal age of adulthood after a subcommittee of a government advisory panel on Wednesday… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Wed, Jul 29 2009

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