New Japanese mobile phone rules to remedy child prostitution

1:02 PM on 11.26.2007   |   Dale North

Japan's Education Rebuilding Council has drafted measures for mobile phones to protect the young ones from the evils of the internet. The council hopes that filtering functions will prevent kids from accessing Web dating services, which are believed to be root of underage female prostitution. Yikes!

Even though filtering apps are already freely available, the Telecommunications Carriers Association says that only 30 percent of primary to high school phone users are enabling them. I guess the rest like the dirty stuff.

The Daily Yomuri says that the draft also proposes the locking down of mobile phones features to only three: calling, e-mailing, and GPS functions. They're also hoping that schools will clamp down on in-school phone usage.

Factoid time: the Cabinet Office says that  96 percent of high schoolers, 57.6 percent of middle schoolers and 31.3 percent of primary schoolers used cell phones.

There were 1,915 cases involving Web dating services in 2006. Of 1,387 victims in the cases in which child prostitution, child pornography, confinement and violence were discovered, 1,153, or more than 80 percent, were aged under 18. Of the victims under 18, 1,114, or 96.6 percent, had accessed dating service Web sites via cell phone.

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