Police have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of violating the new adult video law after he was caught filming a sex act with a 16-year-old girl in a karaoke room. One of the most common places to go to karaoke in Japan is a building with lots of small soundproof rooms, little more than booths really. This gives you privacy to drink and sing, and thus also ideal date spots. A bit of cuddling and smooching in the karaoke booth is the perfect prelude to moving on to your home or a love hotel. Inevitably, sex does happen in karaoke rooms, but actually making a porn film without ...

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A Japanese pianist has been arrested for stealing the aprons of flight attendants to satisfy a fetish for their smell. Thirty-four-year-old Kazuya Saito lives in Tokyo but travels widely for his work as a professional concert pianist. In May, airline ANA reported the theft of several flight attendant aprons. Saito is accused of stealing an apron (worth around ¥5,000) from an April 25 ANA flight from Ishigaki to Haneda while the plane was preparing for takeoff. His arrest was first reported on June 14 and further details have emerged in the last few days. The pianist has apparently ...

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More bad news about compensated dating now as the moral panic over papakatsu continues. Papakatsu is a kind of newish buzzword to describe compensated dating that involves an older man and younger woman (though in practice, compensated dating often meant such sugar daddy relationships regardless of terminology). Following media stories about female fraudsters and even at least one murder, it helps to remember that the men are not always the victim here -- and since they're the ones with the money, quite the opposite in many cases. The young women involved in papakatsu may be barely over ...

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Shinjuku police have arrested a 22-year-old in Kabukicho host for tricking a 17-year-old girl out of around ¥400,000 in cash. Rai Akama is a former actor and was in contact with the girl after she came to see one of his stage productions last summer. He invited her to his host club and, so that she wouldn't get caught as underage, even lent her the ID of a female friend. This only solidified the girl's dependency on Akama, who was apparently prepared to deceive his own club and risk his livelihood for her benefit. She took a part-time job to give him money but he wanted more. He ...

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Yesterday we shared the news about an elementary school teacher suspended (but allowed to keep his job) for downloading child porn. Now comes a story involving another educator up to no good in Japan. A male teacher in his forties has been arrested for taking videos up girls' skirts in escalators in Tokyo. The man is a teacher at a public elementary school in Urayasu, Chiba, according to multiple media reports this week. Upskirting is a huge fetish in Japan, inspiring a unique word (panchira) to describe the thrill of glimpsing female panties up a skirt. Secret filming (especially in ...

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A male teacher at an elementary school in the prefecture of Gifu has been punished for saving and possessing child porn on his phone. The unnamed 33-year-old educator was suspended for four months, starting May 23, according to Japanese media reports. The school is located in the small city of Kani in the landlocked prefecture. The education board gave a press conference in which it attempted to explain the situation, noting that the teacher had downloaded two videos and an image to his phone between October three years ago until September last year "in order to satisfy his sexual ...

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Like millions of others, you have probably seen and enjoyed the homemade porn content by Naomiii, recording her sexual exploits with a partner in various parts of Japan, and showcasing her amazing body, which probably includes the best-shaped labia we have possibly ever seen. But publicly shared sex tapes and amateur porn are still subject to the same obscenity law in Japan that demands censorship of genitalia, and you are especially liable to attract police attention if you are successfully selling content online -- and ultimately face arrest. And so it has come to pass for Naomiii, ...

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A US Marine corporal has been arrested for filming a female sex worker in Naha, Okinawa. The 22-year-old was arrested at the scene on May 4 for breaching a little-known law against filming sexual acts. The Marine is attached to Camp Kinser (Machinato Service Area) in Urasoe on the main island of Okinawa. He told police, "I didn't know it was illegal [to film]." And if we're honest, that's fair enough. While a customer likely knows it's almost always against the brothel's rules and liable to land you in trouble, it might surprise many that you can actually face arrest for filming your ...

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There has been a lot of outrage recently about male hosts in Japan exploiting vulnerable women, young and old, in order to get them to pay the ridiculous fees their clubs charge. This includes forcing underage girls into prostitution. We shouldn't overlook the dark and controversial world of music idols, however, where the casting coach is commonplace (as it is in gravure modeling). Things get particularly murky in the far less lucrative world of minor and underground idols, who don't get mainstream exposure and are more vulnerable to managers and so on promising success and money. A ...

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The stories about the victims of male hosts' exploitation seem to become more sensational week by week. Last week, we wrote about the schoolgirl who was allowed to build up a huge bill at a host club and had to prostitute herself to pay off her debt. Now comes a story in which this latest moral panic seems to dovetail with another recent trend: the tales of Japanese women going abroad to earn money as sex workers and take advantage of the weak yen. This has become so common that a crackdown has started in the United States. China, Hong Kong, and Macau remain popular destinations, however ...

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