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Yup. Another factor is that Japan's national age of sexual consent was thirteen until June of 2023 (though the local age of consent in most areas was and still is is higher). At the same time, the law and culture tended to be forgiving of excuses like, "I swear she looked 13 at least!" Whether or not the latter is still true, I don't know...
In fact, no one knows because, in Japan, reporting rape (including statutory rape) to the police almost never results in criminal charges. Approximately one rape charge is prosecuted for every 100 such reports filed. And Japanese society very strongly discourages rape victims from ever reporting anything in the first place.
While all forms of incest are legal in Japan, Japanese society utterly abhors incest between immediate relatives. When it occurs and becomes public knowledge, the lives and reputation of the entire family can be ruined (or so I've heard/read). Whether this discourages incest or guarantees that families and cultural norms conspire keep it from public view seems to be little-studied...
On a potentially related note, there's an ongoing epidemic of homeless teenage girls living on the streets in Tokyo* (and, to a lesser extent, other major cities). Some suggest, albeit without a great deal of apparent evidence, that it's in large part the product of widespread but unacknowledged sexual abuse in Japanese families 😬
* Reflected, perhaps, in contemporary manga tropes: JK seeks papakatsu on the street, youth lives in internet/manga cafes, romance with stray/abandoned girl
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