Deai site teenagers pimped out to 1,500 men by ex-host

Written by: Tadashi Anahori on November 16, 2011 at 1:03 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss »

A man has been arrested for pimping out teenaged girls via a deai internet website. So-called deai sites (“encounter” websites) are portals for meeting up with young ladies, often platforms for enjo kosai (dates with cash rewards) or open prostitution.

This time one man was calling the shots and had several underage girls on the site working for him. Atsuo Yoshinari (27) was a former host living in Shinjuku who, along with his two fellow arrested chums, admits the charges of prostituting a 17-year old girl. The fatal incident came in a love hotel in north Tokyo in June where the teenager was paid 20,000 yen (about $260) by a 41-year old company employee to have sex.

The police estimate that Yoshinari and co have prostituted out multiple girls under 25 from September last year to October this year to some 1,500 men! Each time the fee was around 20,000 yen, with sales of around 30 million yen (nearly $400,000). Hey, when your economy’s in recession, shouldn’t this kind if industry be praised?!

The problem came when the central girl’s mother became suspicious and found out in June, thus bringing to an end the promising financial enterprise.

The reason why Yoshinari will likely be jailed, though, is not so much that what he did was “wrong” in Japan but because he wasn’t registered as a “delivery health” (a legal euphemism for a call girl service). If you register and no doubt also pay off the yakuza you are probably safe!

Share This

Tags: crime, enjo kosai, prostitution
Category: Erotic Japan Blog
Other categories: No categories

Gaming site becomes high school girl prostitution portal

Written by: Megumi on October 14, 2011 at 12:38 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss »

They say that too much gaming is bad for you and there could be some truth to that.

At least, if you are using a gaming site for rather different purposes to winning the next level on a beat ‘em up.

Kanagawa police have arrested Masahiro Odakura, 24, on charges of child prostitution. Odakura worked as a press operator in ‘burbs land, Saitama.

Perhaps eager to escape the boredom of arguably Japan’s dullest prefecture, he allegedly in June he had sex with a high school girl — at the time a mere, ripe 16 — in a love hotel. He paid the lady 10,000 yen, or around $130.

Here’s the interesting thing. He met her not through a deai “encounter” site, kami-machi site, online forum, or any of the usual means of enjo kosai. (Salarymen used to just be able to meet students waiting outside stations.) He used Mobage, one of the most popular social media in Japan and actually a gaming portal. He met the student online last December and they exchanged mails, eventually leading six months later to the alleged incident.

It’s strange because it was only a few months ago that we were reporting on how social media was helping to “save” Japan against prostitution. How fickle the internet is!

Presumably he was caught because the young lady in question went to the police. His excuse to the police? “I like younger girls.” Well, I reckon that should be a perfectly valid excuse in court, don’t you?

Share This

Tags: crime, enjo kosai, prostitution, schoolgirls
Category: Erotic Japan Blog
Other categories: No categories

Kamimachi Girl Runaways sell sex for a place to stay

Written by: Tadashi Anahori on March 5, 2010 at 10:30 am | In Erotic Japan Blog | Discuss (1) »

We’ve all seen them: cute, aimless-looking young girls hanging around Shinjuku, Shibuya or other big city areas. They often have lots of bags. They don’t really look homeless but they certainly look a bit vulnerable.

Okay, mystery solved! They’re “kami-machi girls” (神待ちガール), which literally translates as “god-waiting girls”. Wow, that sounds religious! No fear, the truth is much more interesting.

After leaving home in a hurry these lasses find their ways to the big cities with no job, no home and no cash. What are they gonna do? Well, a lot of them sleep in internet cafes and surf internet boards looking for sugar daddies to help them out. These ladies will do anything for a place to stay and a man to buy them dinner.

[Image via Japan Times.]

They go online onto these “runaway sites” (“ie-de saito”, 家出サイト) and hook up with a man (that’s the “god” in this equation, because he calls the shots). If all goes well, he will be taking her out, letting her stay at his place — for a few “favors” of course. Laws officially preventing under-18s from participating in these sites are apparently not very effective, but these are not all “bad girls” or sluts, you know — some are just normal girls who will do anything not to have to go back home.

We’ve had these kinds of things before, right? I’m sure regular readers to this blog will know about enjo kosai, where school girls sleep with guys for the cost of dinner and a handsome tip (how else can they get the latest Louis Vuitton bag?). What is it about Japan, young girls and the craving for cash that will make them do just about anything? There are estimated to be five or so kami-machi sites, plus a plethora of others operating “de-ai” (出会い) encounter sites or just plain old call girl services!

For more, we recommend Tetsuya Shibui’s “A True Account: Underground Web Sites Crime Report” (“Jitsuroku: Yami Saito Jikenbo”). Also, see below for an example of kami-machi girls hooking up with a male protector…

Share This

Tags: enjo kosai, kamimachi, schoolgirls
Category: Erotic Japan Blog
Other categories: No categories