Japanese civil servants in hot water for sexy side jobs
June 12, 2026
/ Tadashi Anahori
Recently, a Saitama employee at the tax bureau resigned after it was found that she was doing sex work on the side.
Abema Times reported that the Saitama employee was doing sex work to fund her support for an underground idol. She earning approximately ¥1.8 million working at five brothels. She also did sugar dating (papakatsu), receiving about ¥500,000 in compensation from around 30 men.
The employee was punished with a pay cut, though she chose to resign.
This is not the first time that civil servants have been disciplined for working in sex establishments.
It follows a similar story ...
Saitama tax bureau employee rumbled over sugar dating and sex work side income
June 1, 2026
/ Tadashi Anahori
Everyone is at compensated dating. Even the taxman. Or rather, the tax woman.
The Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Taxation Bureau has imposed a 20% pay cut on a female employee working at a tax office in Saitama Prefecture for working at adult entertainment establishments without permission and receiving payment for it.
This is a moot point, though, since the employee in question has since resigned.
According to the Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Taxation Bureau, the female employee in her twenties worked at five adult entertainment establishments without permission between October of last year and March ...
Pregnant sugar baby turns pimp and porn star to maintain income
May 11, 2026
/ Tadashi Anahori
The tabloid weekly Friday has published a story about a pregnant woman in Japan who did papakatsu sugar dating, earning around ¥8 million in 10 months.
Eriko (a pseudonym) explained to the magazine that she and her older husband dated for 10 years and have been married now for seven. Now at age 36, she is finally pregnant with their first child.
"I work as an office lady, but I've actually been doing sugar dating [compensated dating with a sugar daddy] since before I got pregnant. The regular allowances I received were the main source of my income. So, while I was happy to be pregnant, I ...
Interview with former sex worker about compensated dating, drugs, and tattoos
November 3, 2025
/ Tadashi Anahori
The tabloid Spa! recently ran an interview with a 33-year-old, heavily tattooed employee in the construction industry who goes by the online name Cyber Lisapi.
Lisapi did compensated dating from junior high school and has also worked at a brothel (fuzoku). Her colorful past also includes addiction to illegal drugs.
In the interview, she shares more about her turbulent life. We've shared some edited highlights below.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, her childhood was unsettled.
"My parents divorced when I was about six years old. My mother worked as a hostess at a club, so I don't think she had ...
Can you demand your date repays costs of trip if you don’t have sex?
October 3, 2025
/ Tadashi Anahori
Legal website Bengo4 recently considered a question sent in by a reader: Are there legal repercussions for not having sex on a trip with the person who paid?
This isn't just a question of guys left horny, lonely, and disappointed, forced to jerk off in an expensive hotel room they booked in the expectation of getting sex. More than just sour grapes, there's also the issue of romance scams, where people pretend to be interested in you, even to the extent of agreeing to go to Tokyo Disneyland just because they want a free trip to the resort, not because they want to spend time with you.
The ...
Female high school teacher accused of cheating older man of 7 million yen
September 4, 2025
/ Tadashi Anahori
This is a cautionary tale with a simple moral: if you hook up with a woman 20 years younger than you via a dating app, the chances are that she's not really into you (or at least, not solely into you because of, well, you).
A high school teacher has been arrested for fraud by police in Tokyo after she allegedly faked documents to extract a large amount of money from an older man she was dating.
Narumi Ohira worked as a home economics teacher at an elementary school, where she was popular with students, and was halfway through the academic year at her current school, but students won't be ...
Four Okubo Park prostitutes arrested for defrauding foreign men
July 28, 2025
/ Tadashi Anahori
The moral panic about young prostitutes in Okubo Park near Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo, just took a new twist with the arrest of four women for defrauding men, especially foreign tourists.
Ongoing for some time, the Okubo Park issue has been a big news story, filled with salacious detail about young women standing around in the area, waiting for men to pick them up for money. While there's nothing new about prostitution in Kabukicho, it is rare to see so many young Japanese women openly engaged in sex work (most streetwalkers tend to be Chinese, since it is more dangerous and public). Such ...
Sex worker arrested for threatening to kill family of older lover
June 10, 2025
/ Tadashi Anahori
If you're dating a sex worker half your age, chances are things are going to get complicated.
And so it proved for a man in his fifties in the west of Shizuoka Prefecture, who was involved with a 22-year-old sex worker in the nearby city of Shimada.
According to a report by SBS on June 9, the unnamed woman was arrested on June 8 for sending a message in which she threatened to kill the man and his family.
"I'll kill you and your whole family," she allegedly wrote in a message to the man sent on the app LINE.
The woman works at a local brothel. It is not known how she and the man began ...
53-year-old man arrested for sleeping with 16-year-old high schooler in Kabukicho
October 23, 2024
/ Tadashi Anahori
Another day, another news story about Okubo Park prostitution as the moral panic over street walkers in the area and Kabukicho host club debt and addiction continues.
The latest tale of woe is the arrest of a 53-year-old man, Atsuhiro Kodama, on child prostitution charges on October 18, after he took a 16-year-old high schooler he picked up in Okubo Park to a nearby love hotel.
To pay for her obsession with male underground idols (chika idol), she apparently starting doing papakatsu (sugar daddy compensated dating). Someone on social media told her that you can earn a lot of money doing ...
Female scammers pose as sex workers, terrorize men in Kabukicho
September 10, 2024
/ Tadashi Anahori
The tabloid Weekly Friday has reported on two scammers who are terrorizing unsuspecting men they pick up through dating and matchmaking apps.
The first is dubbed Glans Dash Yuri.
Yuri apparently agrees to meet guys on an app for compensated dating. She sets the fee as ¥20,000 and they meet somewhere like outside a fast food restaurant near Seibu Shinjuku Station, which is a short walk to the love hotels in Okubo-Kabukicho.
They go to a really basic love hotel with a small room, bed, and shower (these may not even be in a love hotel but just a "rental room" in a multi-tenant building). ...




















