Ten Years of Organized-Crime Exclusion Ordinances: Removing Gangs from the Sex Industry Is 'Only Halfway Done,' National Police Agency Reports
Marking a decade since organized-crime exclusion ordinances were in place across all 47 prefectures by 2011, the National Police Agency released an assessment report. While excluding organized crime groups (boryokudan) from the sex industry has produced certain results, latent involvement through front companies and 'hangure' (semi-gangster) groups continues, and the report assessed the effort as 'only halfway done.