Tokyo metropolitan government considers cracking down on minors sharing nude selfies online
December 22, 2017
/ Tadashi Anahori
If you're anything like us, you like nude selfies. Not necessarily your own or even your partner's, but perusing those of others posted generously online.
We've covered some great examples of these over the years and they never cease to get us in the right mood.
But if you happen to like the ones posted by high schoolers or even younger, you may not be able to enjoy them that much longer if the powers that be have their way.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is proposing to change the Healthy Youth Development Ordinance, which covers the use of media and minors to make it harder to ask ...
Police warn schoolgirls in Tokyo against working in sleazy JK business
April 14, 2017
/ Tadashi Anahori
"Teenage girls luring men into dens of sleaze warned by police."
It sounds like a headline on a parody news website. The men are lured into dens of sleaze by teenage girls. Oh, so the men are the victims?
But it's not. It's an article in the Asahi Shimbun and just the latest entry in a media frenzy about the JK business ("high-school girl business") as the police continue their crackdown on what is often a thin cover for underage prostitution.
Twenty teenage girls suspected of working in the sleazy "JK business" were given a slap on the wrist by police in a series of street ...
Japanese government wants to crack down on performer coercion in pornography
April 3, 2017
/ Tadashi Anahori
After the media controversy comes the government crackdown.
The biggest story in the adult industry last year was when the widespread coercion in the porn industry was finally exposed after several famous performers came forward, in addition to multiple arrests and prosecutions.
It led to an official apology from the industry, though can we really hope that things will really improve when the industry is so large and its needs so rampant? (After all, such coercion is also endemic for gravure idols, music idols and the general entertainment world.)
Kyodo now reports that the ...
Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly moves to ban “JK business” (schoolgirl-dating services)
February 16, 2017
/ Tadashi Anahori
Bad news if you are into "JK business", the new style of enjo kosai (compensated dating) where you go on "dates" with schoolgirls that end in a sexual encounter. The days of casually walking into a JK business venue and getting an appointment with a teenager are possibly numbered.
These services are often euphemistically called "osanpo" (walks), though they may also be in the form of "massages" or "soine" (snuggling up together in bed), or as conversations in a "cafe" or even sessions where the customer takes photos of the girl schoolgirl in swimwear. ("JK" stands for "joshi-kosei", or ...
Accused of pushing child pornography, DMM stops selling underage and junior idol content
September 9, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Adult retail giant DMM.com announced on September 7th that it would no longer sell content in which performers are under 18 years of age.
This will apply to "image video" DVDs and so on featuring idols and tarento.
DMM also said that since July 25th it had stopped selling adult content that had not been screened by industry bodies like the euphemistically named Intellectual Property Promotion Association (IPPA). Moreover, it said that it had never sold any pornography involving performers under the age of 18.
DMM also said that the non-adult DVDs featuring performers under the age of ...
52 performers and crew from AV porn shoot arrested for indecent exposure
July 8, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
The Japanese AV industry is under a lot of pressure right now.
Just today we heard that top porn star Nozomi Aso has been arrested on drug charges.
Then there have been all the reports and criticisms about alleged coercion and exploitation in the industry, which even led to the arrest of porn industry staff and an official industry apology last month.
Now the arrests have led to new charges. This time, the president of production company CA, Yoshihide Murayama, is one of 52 people -- 9 actresses 24 male performers, plus crew -- accused of indecent exposure during a shoot a camping ...
Police prepare for crackdown on JK businesses in Tokyo
May 31, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
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. ...
City in Osaka clamps down on convenience store adult magazines
April 8, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Something that shocks some visitors to Japan is the volume of porn, soft-core porn or other adult magazines lining the shelves of convenience stores. It is placed in a certain section marked as "adult" but not on a top shelf like in other countries. And the covers make it very clear what is inside, awaiting the horny reader.
There has been talk about "cleaning this up" as we get closer to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, but no concrete developments.
Until now. In what may be the first salvo against the freedom for pornographers to push their wares in open, a local mayor has taken the ...
Tokyo court rules that realistic computer graphics violate child porn law
March 17, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
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 reports on police crackdown on schoolgirl prostitutes in Japan
January 14, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
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 ...