On December 5, Tokushima Prefectural Assembly approved the resignation of assemblymember Hiroshi Furukawa, who was arrested at a Tokyo hotel on suspicion of secretly filming a woman working at a delivery health (outcall) adult entertainment establishment.
He is a representative of the prefectural headquarters for Komeito, known as the "clean government" party and affiliated with the Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai.
He was arrested on the night of November 28 at a hotel in Akasaka, Tokyo, on suspicion of violating the Act on Punishment of Sexual Photography, for secretly filming the ...
Does regular sex with a prostitute count as adultery? It's not just a moral question, but a legal one, because it could be grounds for divorce and a lawsuit, since an aggrieved spouse can sue the lover in Japan for damages if it can be proved they knew the man or woman was married.
FNN recently reported on a father of four married for 24 years who had a secret. He was secretly meeting a woman he met at a brothel at a love hotel once a month, paying her ¥30,000 each time. Upon learning of his betrayal, his wife directed her anger at the other woman, and sued her for ¥3.3 million.
All three ...
Given the unregulated nature of the sex industry and the recent proliferation of dodgy, host-addicted young ladies doing tachinbo (streetwalking), it's expected that a client might be on guard, worried about losing his wallet or receiving a visit from the cops because the girl is actually underage.
What they might not expect is for the prostitute to dob you into the cops!
That's what happened at a hotel in Kitakyushu, where an elementary school teacher was arrested after a call girl tipped off police over the presence of weed, which was wrapped in paper and disguised as a ...
Host and hostess clubs were demonized during the Covid pandemic as superspreaders. Despite the greater need for intimacy among clients, the sex industry also took a big hit but was denied any government handout.
This sparked controversy over perceived discrimination and some fought back: a lawsuit was filed in 2020 over the omission of sex industry businesses like delivery health (outcall escort services) and soaplands from cash relief schemes.
The lawsuit, filed by a call girl service in Kansai and successfully crowdfunded by over 1,000 supporters, was dismissed in 2022 by Tokyo District ...
A recent column in Weekly Playboy explored what ChatGPT tells us about sex workers in Japan.
Procurement and acquisition consultant Takanori Sakaguchi used AI to analyze the sex industry in Japan. With his ChatGPT Pro account, he collected data on 635 sex workers at soaplands and "delivery heath" call girl services: their heights, busts, waists, and hips. The data were taken from high-end services as well as cheaper ones.
The results for height are not surprising: sex workers are essentially as tall as most Japanese women.
What about those all-important breasts? Sex workers almost all have ...
Police have arrested a Vietnamese man living in Hamamatsu for the alleged rape of a sex worker.
According to a report by TV Shizuoka, the unnamed man has admitted having sex with the woman but claims there was consent.
The 28-year-old works in the food and drink industry, and lives in Chuo Ward, Hamamatsu. The allegation relates to an incident at a love hotel in the same ward in late February.
It is unclear why it has taken this long for police to arrest him.
The sex worker is a woman -- presumably Japanese, though not specified in the report -- in her twenties who works for a ...
Prostitution is big business in Japan, as any wander down the back alleys of Kabukicho or around Okubo Park should quickly attest.
The former is filled with blowjob parlors and "dispatch" shops, while the latter has become a notorious hotbed of streetwalkers (actually, street standers -- since they are all just lingering and waiting for clients to come along).
We would like to think it's the sex workers themselves who are making all the yen but there are almost always middlemen (perhaps with the exception of the women at Okubo Park, which is why they are more vulnerable).
As reported ...
Firefighters in Japan have a reputation for being pretty macho and sexually active.
This reputation is arguably not unearned, as past scandals have shown. Remember the hunky firefighters who stripped off for charity?
Or the Osaka firefighters who got suspended for appearing in porn?
Or the male and female firefighters in Nagoya who were caught having sex at work?
Now apparently comes the news that two male firefighters in Ichomiya, Aichi Prefecture, have been caught working a side job.
What's the rumpus? Well, the scandal -- and why it got reported in the news -- is that their side ...
After the government and media demonized mizu-shobai (host and hostess clubs, and similar businesses) as Covid superspreaders, the industry reacted by working with officials to spread information about how to avoid affection.
Others, though, fought back. A member of the sex industry sued the government for its refusal to provide handouts to adult businesses, despite giving such funds to private citizens and small businesses in "respectable" industries. As we wrote when legal proceedings began at Tokyo District Court in autumn 2020, the woman who filed the suit argued this was in violation of ...
It's probably Tokyo's most famous and futuristic pieces of architecture: the Nakagin Capsule Tower.
Despite its repute, it's an endangered species: demolition of the Metabolist landmark has been scheduled for a long time.
People have continued to reside in the pod-like pied-à-terre living units or use them as office spaces. Or for other uses, it seems.
We had never heard of this before but it seems that certain capsule rooms in Nakagin were used by prostitutes to service customers.
In Tokyo, a brothel-style fuzoku service typically has its own little place with basic facilities. ...
