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Prosecutors on August 6 asked the Tokyo District Court for six years and a ¥2 million fine for the former operator of a Yushima massage shop where a 12-year-old Thai girl served some 60 customers in a month — a case Japanese prosecutors declined to charge as human trafficking even after a Bangkok court convicted her mother of exactly that.
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A Hiroshima court sentenced a boy who was 16 at the time to 20 years for the robbery-murder of a 52-year-old man lured to a park by his teenage papa-katsu partner — and a detailed August 5 account of the trial shows how an ordinary compensated-dating arrangement was converted into a target list.
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Sapporo police arrested a 36-year-old woman on August 3, 2026 for a two-minute sidewalk sales pitch she delivered to a plainclothes officer sixteen days earlier — the latest in a run of delayed-arrest touting cases in Susukino that runs alongside a raid on an unlicensed bar staffed by minors and Hokkaido's first 'scout back' arrest.
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The Metropolitan Police Department announced on August 3, 2026 the arrest of a 32-year-old company employee accused of using paid generative AI to strip real women in track and gym uniforms and post the results online, and the referral to prosecutors of a 17-year-old who allegedly commissioned about half of them — a case that exposes how little of Japan's law actually reaches sexual deepfakes.
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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.
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Nagano Prefectural Police put six seized supercars worth roughly ¥91 million on public view on July 28, 2026, saying the money came from four cabaret clubs run for four years without a license — an unusually visual demonstration of a strategy that now targets the earnings of illegal nightlife businesses, not just the businesses themselves.
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The Osaka District Court on July 29 handed a suspended two-and-a-half-year term to the 29-year-old head of the scout group 'Torasu,' convicted of referring three women in their twenties to sex-industry establishments in Sapporo, Nagoya and Hamamatsu — a group police say ran on a written script and took in more than ¥100 million in referral kickbacks.
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The Osaka District Court on July 29 handed a suspended one-year term to a former prefectural police sergeant who struck a man in the face with a smartphone during the 2025 search of premises tied to 'Natural,' Japan's largest illegal scout group — completing guilty verdicts against all six officers charged, and drawing a rebuke of the force itself.
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Aichi police raided the Sakae host club 'Tada Nomitakute TOKYO' before dawn on July 29 and arrested two men on the spot for operating without a license — a case that began when a female customer went to police in June over a disputed running tab.
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Fukuoka police re-arrested two men on July 28 over a prostitution contract allegedly signed in Saga, and arrested a 48-year-old fortune teller a day earlier for referring the woman into the trade — widening a case that investigators say spanned seven prefectures and had no shop to raid.