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Osaka police have arrested a 26-year-old former host accused of using threatening messages to make a female customer in her 20s sell sex on the street to fund his club, under an ¥80,000-a-day, ¥2 million-a-month quota. The club's operator, who allegedly knew, was referred to prosecutors.
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Fukuoka police arrested three men over an unmarked sex business advertised online as 'men's aroma' and run from two apartment units in Kurume, a zone where such shops are banned. On October 27 they searched a Dojin-kai gang office, saying they suspect the proceeds helped fund the syndicate.
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Tokyo police arrested the 63-year-old Chinese operator of an Okubo 'private-room massage' shop and three Thai women in their 30s, alleging the operator ran a sex business out of his own apartment in a zone where such shops are banned. Police say it took in about ¥21 million in three months.
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Oita prefectural police have arrested the 67-year-old operator of a Beppu soapland and its 33-year-old manager. They are suspected of providing a private room for a woman employee in her 20s to sell sex on October 24, 2026. It is the second Beppu soapland case in about a year.
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The Tokyo District Court on October 22 gave a former University of Tokyo medical professor two years in prison, suspended for three, for taking about 1.83 million yen in soapland and high-end club entertainment from a research partner. The judge called the hospitality hedonistic and strongly sexual in nature.
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Sapporo police on October 22 arrested a 59-year-old senior member of the Yamaguchi-gumi-affiliated Seiyukai, accusing him of running an unlicensed Susukino pub in 2024 where women, including a girl under 18, entertained male customers. He partly admits responsibility but denies the core allegations.
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Tokyo police arrested a 30-year-old university student on October 20, accusing her of extorting 75,000 yen from the manager of a Taito Ward sex shop where she had worked and demanding 1 million yen more not to file an Anti-Prostitution Act complaint. She denies it. Two outlets tie her to June's Louvre raid; police have not.
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Osaka police raided three pink salons in one building near Kyobashi Station on October 20 and arrested 16 people, including the 58-year-old de facto operator, for public indecency. The booths had no doors. Investigators found a 'police manual' with a lights-flashing warning signal and put combined annual sales at about 500 million yen.
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The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on October 19 declined to indict a 28-year-old man arrested in September on suspicion of helping provide a Shinjuku apartment for prostitution in July. Prosecutors cited only 'the evidence and all circumstances.' The case shows how little of a place-provision arrest can survive to court.
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Hiroshima police have rearrested a 36-year-old psychiatrist at a Kure hospital, accusing him of paying a girl under 16 he met on social media ¥30,000 for sex at a Hiroshima city hotel. Investigators found the lead on the phone seized in his September arrest.