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It is hard for victims to speak up about sexual assaults in childhood. Making them think, ‘It's useless to file a lawsuit because of the statute of limitations,' is no different from causing secondary

Prof. Katsumi Matsumoto of Ritsumeikan University, an expert on the Civil Code. Victims of childhood sexual violence and lawyers supporting them are calling for the abolition of a time limit on civil lawsuits seeking compensation for harm done in the past. © Yomiuri Shimbun