She sits on the board of directors for groups such as People Against Pornography and Sexual Violence (PAPS) and her politics have gotten her into trouble with Japan’s ruling elite, which is composed mostly of cranky old men. Minori Kitahara is a force in feminism and sex positivity in Japan. It was after the fourth verdict that writer and feminist Minori Kitahara, along with feminist publisher Akiko Matsuo and others, decided they could not let a month go by without taking action against these gross injustices and set up the flower demonstration movement. The fourth case differs from all the others in that the judge didn’t even consider issues of consent, because he completely dismissed the testimony of the daughter and any corroborating evidence. In a country where it's estimated that one out of five men has seen or possessed child pornography, perhaps the judge just considered the father unlucky. He was found guilty for possession of child pornography and fined $921, but the fact that the father was a child porn aficionado didn’t seem to convince the judge that he might be capable of acting on those fantasies. The judge ruled in favor of the father, who was found not guilty. On March 28, in Shizuoka Prefecture, the fourth verdict, the judge decided that the testimony of a 14-year-old girl who claimed to have been raped by her father for two years was unreliable. In other words, because she didn’t sufficiently refuse the father’s sexual advances, it wasn’t actually incapacitated rape.
However, the judge also concluded that while the daughter had not consented to sexual intercouse and was in a mental state that made resistance difficult, he couldn’t conclude she was so afraid that she could not refuse. The Nagoya Court judge recognized that the father had been sexually abusing her since she was in the second year of junior high school. The third case March 26, and perhaps the most baffling, was the sexual assault of a 19-year-old girl by her father.
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