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Hatoyama starts debate on lowering legal age

Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama told an advisory board Wednesday to study the possibility of legally lowering the age of adulthood from 20 to 18. Read the full story . . . ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Wed, Feb 13 2008

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13 Feb 08		Japan starts full-scale debate over lowering of adult age to 18  »  Japan Today Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama instructed an advisory board on Wednesday to begin studying a legal change to lower the adulthood age to 18 from the current 20. Changing the age of adulthood, which is set under the Civil Code, will require much...
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