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>U.N. official’s claim that 13% of Japanese girls engage in ‘compensated dating’ angers government
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>U.N. official backtracks on Japan schoolgirl ‘compensated dating’ claim
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1ST:
>he Foreign Ministry has protested remarks by a U.N. official who said 13 percent of schoolgirls in Japan are engaged in enjo kosai, or compensated dating, and called for the comment to be retracted.

>The ministry lodged the protest with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding comments by Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, during her visit to Japan late last month.

>The ministry said it has asked the U.N. office to disclose the basis for the “13 percent” claim, but De Boer-Buquicchio’s side has not clearly explained where the figure came from.

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>A special rapporteur for the United Nations has effectively retracted her earlier allegation that 13 percent of schoolgirls in Japan are engaged in enjo kosai, or compensated dating, the government’s top spokesman said Wednesday in Tokyo.

>In the letter, she [rapporteur] admitted there is “no public, recent” data to back up her allegation, and promised not to use the figure in a report she plans to submit to the United Nations, Suga told a regular news conference.

>“We take this explanation as an effective retraction” of her remark, [Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide] Suga said.