Japan to lower age of majority from 20 to 18
 

Officials have announced that the Japanese government is set to lower the age of majority -- the age from which one is legally an adult in Japan -- from 20 to 18.

The government will submit bills to revise the Civil Code and other relevant legislation to the Diet during an extraordinary Diet session in the autumn of 2009, or a regular Diet session in 2010.

Source: Gov't to lower the age of majority to 18 from current 20 | Mainichi

just like in my country.the adult age here starts when a person becomes 18.
So they lower the minimum age of adults to 18 because then the young adults could vote?

Legal age in the US. is 21...

Americans are sent to the army to handle lethal weapons at 18 but they can't have a glass of beer :confused:

By the way, I'm 23 :mtongue:

I always had a problem with that. We can go and fight for our country and shoot people at 18, but can't have alcohol until we're 21. How goofy is that?

I've been wondering that for a while. 18= become an adult+go to war+vote

21= legal drinking age.


Something is definitely not right with this equation.

So does that mean they're lowing the drinking age? Last time I checked wikipedia, it said the drinking age in Japan is 20.

18? I thought it was 16-17.

i am very sorry of you, in my country when you have 18year you
-become an adult+go to war+vote
-legal drinking age
:D

And btw i think every one of us who drinks, occasionaly ...:) of course, have tried drink in their younger days? (younger days - below 18)
:D

alcohol does not make you an adult

I wonder in Japan legal age is 20. But there are people of the age of 18 can go into adult video industry. isn't it weird?