The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has conducted its first coordinated series of inspections on men's concept cafes in Tokyo's Kabukicho district. The inspections revealed illegal practices at 60% of establishments. Between July 22 and July 23, police carried out simultaneous inspections at 20 men's concept cafes in Shinjuku's Kabukicho, central Tokyo, checking for valid business licenses. Also known as concafes, concept cafes provide an experience based on a specific theme through costumes and decor. The staff are generally either all men or women. In the same way that a girls' bar ...

There has been much in the news recently about concept cafes in Japan. Concept cafes, also known as concafes, provide an experience based on a specific theme. In the same way that a girls' bar is a "lite" version of a hostess bar, a men's concafe is like a host club without the eye-watering prices or nighttime reputation. Though there are plenty of female-staffed concafes that operate like a maid cafe with another character instead of maids, the establishers that have attracted media and police attention so far have been concafes run by men and aimed at women. Common cosplay themes ...

Here's a case that ticks all the boxes about the current moral panic. A concafe ("concept cafe") staffed by men in Kabukicho, Tokyo, is accused of exploiting vulnerable female customers. Concafes can be innocuous themed cafes but are often staffed only by men, making them essentially a kind of host club (similar to how girls' bars are like a cheap hostess club). The customers come for the fantasy created by theme (butlers, doctors, private boys' boarding school students, etc.) and the men who work there. At this one, 32-year-old Takuma Ono is alleged to have tried to force a 20-year-old ...