White paper on crime 2011 Part2/Chapter6/Section1/4
In 2000 the U.N. adopted an “Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography” and “Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict” that supplement the Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted in 1989). Japan had ratified both these protocols by January 2005. In addition, and as a domestic law relevant to the former protocol, the Act against Child Prostitution and Pornography was partially amended, and came into force in 2004.