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Tokyo police have arrested a 37-year-old Chiba company executive accused of paying a 14-year-old girl ¥10,000 for sex at a Kabukicho hotel. Police say she was raising money for a men's concept cafe worker, and the lead came from an earlier fuei-ho case against that worker.
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Tokyo police have arrested a 27-year-old former Kabukicho host accused of pressing a woman he met on a dating app to work at a sex shop to pay his club's bills, the Metropolitan Police Department's first case under the 2025 fuei-ho ban on such demands. A scout who placed her at a Funabashi shop was also arrested.
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Tokyo police have arrested a 37-year-old delivery-health operator from Tsurugashima, Saitama, accused of handing a scout ¥153,000 in cash on an Arakawa Ward street in January as a 'scout-back' for referring women, a payment the revised fuei-ho has banned since June 2025.
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Hiroshima police on October 13, 2026, sent prosecutors the case of a 31-year-old host club operator accused of locking his Yagenbori club's door in advance to keep officers out of a June 6 inspection under the fuei-ho. It is the first case on that charge in Hiroshima Prefecture.
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The Sendai District Court on October 13, 2026, sentenced the operator of an unlicensed girls bar in the Kokubuncho nightlife district to 16 months' confinement and a ¥2 million fine, and a second man to four months and ¥600,000. Neither sentence was suspended. The court found they had a girl under 18 entertain customers.
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Japan's government has not yet committed to sending its Anti-Prostitution Act amendment to the Diet session that opened October 5. The bill would penalize buyers who solicit sex. Sex-worker groups and abolitionist scholars held rival forums the day before the session opened.
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Chiba prefectural police arrested two men, one a 53-year-old company executive, on October 6, 2026. They are suspected of letting women use private rooms at Kamakura Goten, a soapland in Chiba City's Sakaecho district, to sell sex to customers between July and September. It is the second soapland raid in the Tokyo area in a week.
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Tokyo police have arrested a 23-year-old Pakistani national on suspicion of robbing a woman in her 20s at knifepoint and sexually assaulting her in a Kabukicho hotel on September 2. Police say she was doing street sex work and he approached her as a customer. He denies the allegations, and police are looking into a similar complaint filed this month.
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Kochi City has passed an ordinance that bans street touting for any kind of business in its downtown nightlife district, the first of its kind among Shikoku municipalities. Officials say touts are the way in to rip-off bills. The zone designation takes effect October 23, 2026, and fines of up to ¥50,000 start in April 2027.
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Tokyo police arrested nine people on October 5, 2026, including the managers of the Yoshiwara soaplands Aile D'ore and Danshaku, on suspicion of providing rooms for prostitution. Police say the two shops took in about ¥5 billion and relied on scout groups to recruit women.