@DANDAN_THE_DANDAN I'm pretty sure it all started quite recently, when scum found out they could abuse the system to get some profit out of it.
Here in Russia we, too, have this pedo-hysteria. A couple of years ago there was this "incident" with a couple of teenagers who hooked up on an alcohol party. Basically no crime was committed, but the Girl's parents made a huge deal out of it which got the guy in jail. Later there was this show on the national TV where they discussed the topic with the girl and her parents(not really, it was a shitshow, at first everyone was sympathizing the girl, but then when she told what was really going on at that party the audience's hate was aimed at the girl instead, cuz she basically just got an innocent guy in prison for liking her and accepting her offer to hook up). She got quite a big chunk of money for that, though at the end she was hated by pretty much any intelligent enough human being that knew about that case.
All I'm saying that it's not just Japan, it's happening all over the globe.
I wonder why, are people nowadays really that rotten?
I remember this old film made in USSR, where a girl of kindergarten age got lost in Moscow and some Older man took her home, fed her and bathed her(basically just took care of a lost child) before he got her to the nearest pollice office (don't remember why didn't he do that right away, but there was a solid reason for that), nobody was freaking out about that as if it was natural. Now every mother freaks out if someone talks to their kid without their supervision l, and dare they not touch the kid.
Now my friends and I are scared to even get close to some random kids let alone talk to them or touch them, so much this pedo-situation got worse.
So stupid