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The Threat Was the Transaction: Osaka Police Re-Arrest Man Accused of Blackmailing 'Papakatsu' Teenagers Into Sex
Osaka prefectural police re-arrested a 44-year-old unemployed man on July 30, 2026, accusing him of photographing a high school student's ID at a paid-dating meeting and then threatening to tell her parents and school unless she met him again — a case investigators say may involve more than a dozen women, and one that turns on the leverage Japan's own laws hand to a blackmailer.