A group of ruling party lawmakers is planning to submit a bill that would revise the Juvenile Law and reduce the age of juveniles who can be treated as criminally liable to the age of 14 from the current 16, it was learned Saturday.
Several lawmakers from the ruling coalition's project team on revising the law said a bill will be presented in the next extraordinary Diet session, scheduled to be held in the autumn.
The legislators said they intend to introduce the bill as it could be a long time before the government is able to draft a bill, since the Justice Ministry's Legislative Council would have to deliberate the issue first.
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