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Shizuoka police arrested a 54-year-old snack-bar owner in Shimizu Ward in the act on Oct. 17, accusing her of having staff sit with and entertain three customers without a fuei-ho license, after officers had told the bar in April to get one.
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Japanese restaurant and bar bankruptcies hit 701 in the first eight months of 2026, on pace to beat last year's record 1,002, and the licensed hostess trade is inside that number. An operator running three cabaret clubs in a regional Kanto city told Shueisha Online what changed: the corporate after-party, the one his business was built on, stopped happening.
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On September 17, 2026, the Ministry of Justice's expert panel adopted its final report on Japan's prostitution laws, recommending that solicitation by the buying side be made punishable — not only on the street but on social media — and that the statute's seventy-year-old penalty ceiling be raised. It declined to settle what prostitution legally means.
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The Japanese government finalized a draft of its Human Trafficking Countermeasures Action Plan 2026 on September 15, adding predatory host clubs to a national trafficking strategy for the first time and putting the men who answer solicitations for sex inside the enforcement frame — as police-protected victims hit 78, two-thirds of them Japanese.
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Fifteen months after Japan's revised public-morals law made it illegal for sex businesses to pay recruiters for referring women, operators told FRIDAY Digital the kickback rate has risen from about 15 percent of a woman's monthly earnings to nearly 20 percent — and that licensed scouting firms withdrew, leaving the trade to anonymous criminal groups.
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On September 2, 2026, an expert panel convened by Japan's National Police Agency published the outline of a proposal to let police reach into the smartphones of criminal-group handlers and read their encrypted messages before a crime is committed, under a judge's permit. The stated purpose is stopping fraud and robbery. By the agency's own accounting, the same groups draw a leading share of their money from sex establishments and scouting.
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On August 24, 2026, Japan's Ministry of Justice handed its expert panel a draft report calling for the men who solicit sex to be brought under the same criminal provision that has punished only the women who sell it since 1956. The ministry is now arranging to put a bill before the autumn Diet.
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New figures published August 13 put Japan's women's-oriented sex services at 400 to 500 shops and roughly 7,000 male therapists — more than double the count four years ago. The sector grew through the same period in which Japan rewrote its nightlife law to stop businesses from using manufactured romance to extract money from customers. That rewrite covers host clubs. It does not cover this.
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A Ministry of Justice study group reviewing Japan's 1956 Anti-Prostitution Act held its seventh session on July 16, 2026, moving from whether to punish sex buyers to how hard the law should hit—circulating new data on how prostitution cases are actually sentenced.
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Mie Prefectural Police arrested the 37-year-old operator of a Tsu nightspot called ROYCE for running it without a license, and are investigating a tip that girls under 18 waited on customers and drank alcohol there.
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