Japan’s Human Trafficking Problems Not Resolved: US State Department
The government has not identified a forced labor victim in Japan in 18 years, despite substantial evidence of abuses against workers in the Industrial Trainee and Technical Internship Program. Japan…
Edible soap? Yakuza Arrested For Claiming Sex-Shop Payment Was For Dining
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Organized Crime Control Division General Affair Division (警視庁組織犯罪対策総務課） arrested three members of the Inagawa-kai, Japan’s third largest organized crime group, on April 27th for computer…
Going through the motions in The Great Happiness Space
Director Jake Clennell gives the deets on what exactly the film was about
Moe Yamaguchi's high-rolling husband arrested for running illegal hostess club
Actress and talento Moe Yamaguchi was “really stunned” when she learned her husband, web entrepreneur Shigeo Ozeki, has been illegally running a posh hostess club without a license. Ozeki and…
Hidden love hotels come out of the closet thanks to law revisions; It's a love fest in post-quake Japan
It seems business is booming for the love hotel industry. The number of registered businesses has jumped by a whopping 2,700 hotels since the beginning of the year, a hefty…
Fuzoku lite: "Aquarium of girls" offers thrills for herbivore men
Girls in uniform, some as young as 15, sit sprawled out on the floor of a small room, chatting or reading books. Skirts are rolled high, some have their legs…
First-ever arrest of Japanese national for making child porn abroad
Police made their first-ever arrest of a Japanese national for producing child pornography while overseas apprehending a 64-year-old man for taking nude photos of a 15-year-old girl while in the Philippines.…
Kyoto Prefecture to become the first to ban child pornography, while Japan's Ruling Party does nothing.
You read that right! Kyoto Prefecture announced plans to roll out a policy that will officially outlaw the possession and acquisition of child pornography, with plans to enact the regulations some time this…
Underage Japanese girls learning to sell themselves online
The plague of child porn has in recent years been facilitated by the spread Internet, writes the Yomiuri in an article sourcing our favorite Polaris Project pundit, Shihoko Fujiwara. “One…
2011 Revised adult entertainment laws: What changes?
On July 6 of this year, the Diet approved proposed revisions of Japanese law regarding “adult entertainment” establishments (風俗営業等の規制及び業務の適正化等に関する法律). The laws are periodically revised as police attempt to keep up…