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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.
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Fukushima police re-arrested two men on October 5, 2026, saying a suspected tokuryu leader had a 17-year-old girl work as a hostess at a bar run under a 22-year-old's license. On October 6 they arrested two women who allegedly put the same girl to work at hospitality jobs.
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On October 5, 2026, Fukuoka police re-arrested a 29-year-old woman from Okawa who works for a delivery-type sex business. They allege she killed a newborn son in June 2025 and threw his body into a canal. She was already charged with killing a second newborn in July 2026, and police say she told them she did not want her mother to find out.
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On October 1, 2026, Osaka prosecutors indicted the former de facto manager of Shinko, the Otsu company behind a soapland in the Ogoto Onsen district, and the company itself. They are accused of hiding about ¥249 million in income, including money collected from the women who worked there, and evading roughly ¥87 million in corporate and consumption taxes.
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Kumamoto police arrested a 49-year-old teacher at Kumamoto Gakuen University's affiliated high school on October 1, 2026, alleging he hid a recording smartphone on a shelf at a lodging facility and filmed a woman in her thirties who works in the sex industry. Hotel staff found the phone and called police.
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Ehime police on September 30 re-arrested the operators of a soapland and a 'health' shop in Matsuyama's Dogo-Takomachi district and arrested the soapland's manager, alleging they contracted with female employees to have sex with customers and split the payments. Police say documents seized in September's raids made the case.
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Tokyo police on September 30 re-arrested three men already held over the Shinjuku men's esthe shop Bonno-ji, this time over the shop that preceded it. Police say the men renamed the business to dodge enforcement, admit it was a prostitution business, and that a phone analysis showed contact with Natural, one of Japan's largest illegal scout groups.
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Hiroshima police on September 29 arrested a 22-year-old restaurant worker accused of luring a 20-year-old woman into the bar where he worked and placing her at a sex business, an alleged violation of the Employment Security Act. Police say he is believed to belong to an illegal scout group and searched the business the same evening.
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Hiroshima police on September 28 arrested a 53-year-old man accused of touting a plainclothes officer in Nagarekawa, the city's main nightlife district, back in May. He told police the allegation is 'broadly correct.' The case follows a run of similar decoy arrests in Sapporo and elsewhere.
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Tokyo police on September 28 re-arrested a 35-year-old man, already indicted for allegedly brokering a 14-year-old girl to men he found online, on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old at what he called a 'papakatsu interview.' Police say his phone held what appears to be a manual for the trade.