Japan: number of rapes and forcible indecencies 2023

The number of recorded rapes in Japan increased to approximately 2.7 thousand cases in 2023 from approximately 1.7 thousand cases in the previous year. At the same time, the number of reported forcible indecencies also increased from 4.7 thousand cases to about 6.1 thousand in 2023.

In 2017, amendments of 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 recorded by the police in Japan from 2014 to 2023

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Release date

February 2024

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

2014 to 2023

Supplementary notes

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 come from the previous reporting.

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