Sexism in Japan: By the Numbers
This is an ongoing series of illustrations for Charitsumo, a website dedicated to spreading awareness of various social issues and politics in Japan in an easily digestible way.
This particular series looks into the deep-rooted sexism in Japan by the numbers.
![31.3% of women in Japan have experienced domestic violence.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8bf16eedfd4a92fec9028ae29d6f53cbe7b8a12008cc33877f5bf18438cbcf6/Domestic_Violence.jpg)
![The age of consent in Japan is 13 years old, one of the lowest in the world. This number has not changed since 1907.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c47b469d2c541292cd0086b5a431195af64fff51589bd3780d5732639a3617c/Age_Of_Consent.jpg)
![In 2015, 674 female students dropped out of school "voluntarily" after getting pregnant. No data of male students involved with pregnancy was found.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dcbde812984f469dea4aa5b7fe7c8744094bdf5249a5b1043da6454b1f832b8/Student_Pregnancy.jpg)
![Only 13.3% of Supreme Court Justices in Japan are female (2 out of 15)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28d792857e40e42fab755ac81ec3f030e8184b7402fca43cebdade2941442ef2/Judge.jpg)
![75.8% of people who quit their job to care for their parents are female.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5564a8ac14207290e13c051f37405307a5de8a185c96c43bc217f29b44394a55/Caretaking_no-layer.jpg)
![On average, there are 443 abortions in Japan per day. Although abortion is legal in Japan, it is very restricted. Medical abortion is not available, and even to get a surgical abortion, it is very expensive and one needs the consent of the father.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47a9e6f585f7f39a938dafd8035dfa025f02d66744ddccf6897b03f5517bc37c/Abortion.jpg)
![There are only 2 female astronauts out of 11 astronauts in JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency).](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc768918ed9cd6efbfed2755a41947cc0184e54ccc3dfb710fc67e1b8006c44c/Astronaut.jpg)
![Only 6.1% of pregnant people got epidurals in Japan in 2016. (73% in the US in 2015, 82.2% in France in 2016)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/369e7464042ade8381749ecb099e118571ca26ee41546728cb1aeb6ce1ea02da/Epidural.jpg)