A panel of experts advising the National Police Agency in Japan has issued a report on so-called "JK business", which is the name given to the various euphemistic services offering sex with schoolgirls.
Similar to the more general enjo kosai (compensated dated), there has been a lot of media and police attention on the growing JK business industry in recent years. Some of the services include osanpo (walking dates), where you pay to have a walk with a schoolgirl. It may end at a love hotel.
Other services include sleeping side by side in a "soine" cuddle cafes or getting a massage. ...
The stalker who stabbed music idol Mayu Tomita may have appeared anonymously in Japanese porn as an uncredited, amateur performer.
The 27-year-old Tomohiro Iwazaki stabbed the underground idol in around 20 places with a 8.2cm knife after taking the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo to wait at a station near where she was holding a concert.
Tomita reminds in critical condition while Iwazaki is in police custody. The case has generated a storm of negative press about the police response and Japan's problem with stalking. After the horrific murder in 2013 of high-school student Saaya ...
A Yokohama court has ordered a transsexual parlor to leave a residential complex in the city after a group of residents got together to sue it on grounds of violating the terms of usage.
Locals were annoyed about the large numbers of employees and customers coming and going in the elevator.
Police were unable to do anything about Hanatsuki Yokohama because it was a classed as a gay service.
In Japan, paying for penetrative sex is illegal, so prostitution services get around this by officially not offering "full service", though this is frequently a mere camouflage maintained to ...
Talk about being hoist by your own petard.
A man in Japan apparently rang up police to ask them if it was against the law to date a 15-year-old girl? This led to police investigating him and finding he had naked photos of a third-grader in his home.
The unemployed Hisao Okazaki (45) was arrested by Kanagawa police on suspicion of violating laws against child prostitution and child pornography, after he was found to have taken pictures of a half-naked female junior high school student with his smartphone and saved the data.
Okazaki has apparently admitted the charges. "I certainly ...
Be warned. Be careful what you have in your drawer or on your phone, hard drive or cloud.
While the government was pressured by mangaka and animators to exclude comic book and drawn images from the new pornography laws passed in 2014, it seems the courts do not agree.
The Tokyo District Court has found an artist "guilty of violating the child pornography law by creating and selling realistic computer graphic images of a naked girl," reports the Asahi Shimbun.
The court on March 15 sentenced Akashi Takahashi, a 55-year-old computer graphic designer from Gifu city, to a one-year ...
Vice seems to have a bee in its bonnet over Japan's so-called "JK industry" of schoolgirl prostitution.
After its provocative and criticized article and video last year, now it reports on a police crackdown on "businesses that exploit underage girls".
The article is written by Tokyo Vice (no relation) author Jake Adelstein, who has made a career out of presenting himself as the gaijin expert on all things Yakuza. Recently he has tried to talk a lot about teenager prostitution too and linking it to AKB48, getting a lot of flak for it.
When a UN investigator visiting Japan ...
Good news! The punishment for serial voyeurism is not as harsh as you might expect!
The case of the Kobe serial drain panty voyeur has captivated us all, from the unabashed earnestness of the act -- hours spent in a storm drain just to glimpse a few seconds of the holy grail of passing women's panties -- to the defense by his mother that Yasuomi Hirai it not a pervert, but just likes to hide in drains
Well, it seems that such extreme panchira fetish acts don't land you in as much trouble as you might expect.
The 28-year-old Hirai has now been summarily indicted and fined ...
The tale of the 28-year-old serial drain voyeur keeps on getting better.
It was amazing enough that the man, arrested in June 2013 for the same crime, would again risk hiding in a drain for hours in order to look up the skirts of passing women (a fetish known as panchira in Japan).
Yasuomi Hirai was arrested on November 9 after he was caught in August using his phone to film up the skirt of a woman walking over the drain grill. He had been in the drain for five hours.
A tabloid reporter spoke to his mother.
"My son has liked to hide in small places like drains since he was a boy. He ...
Some people don't learn their lesson.
Well, Yasuomi Hirai is nothing if not consistent.
We first reported on his unique "talents" back in June 2013, when he was arrested for hiding in a drain in order to look up the skirts of girls passing by over him.
Two years on, and Hirai is at it again.
Once again Hyogo police have arrested the panchira fetishist for hiding in a storm drain, all so he could take photos of pedestrians in Kobe.
This time he was caught on August 16th after he was spotted using his phone to film up the skirt of a woman as she walked past the drain he was ...
Ever hired a lady of the night and then changed your mind? Tried to cancel and had trouble with the girl or her handlers?
One man had such a problem in Kabukicho but ended up on top, legally speaking.
Yukie Shimoyachi, a 30-year-old prostitute, was arrested earlier this week for extortion. She had forced a man to pay her a "cancellation fee" of ¥50,000 ($410) in the early hours of September 27th.
The man had been lured by a street tout in Kabukicho (lesson of the day: DON'T trust those guys) with the promise of a lady who could provide full penetrative sex services (technically ...
