TOKYO: The National Police Agency intends to conduct research on 10,000 households with mainly junior and senior high school students as the selfies (see below) of people in this age group are being used as online child pornography in a rapidly increasing number of cases, sources said.
There has been a large number of cases in which minors were deceived by persons they came into contact with through social media websites such as Twitter or Facebook, and were forced to send photos they took of themselves via free software applications such as LINE.
