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Weekly Post reported on July 27 that a former Yoshiwara soapland worker whose criminal complaint helped bring down a 43-year-old establishment has published a guide on how to report a shop to police — and that it is spreading on worker forums as Japan's nationwide crackdown widens to landlords.
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Tokyo's Metropolitan Police carried out their first coordinated inspection of Kabukicho men's concept cafes on July 22-23, finding public-morals law violations at 12 of 20 venues and simultaneously checking guest registries at 38 area hotels.
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Tokyo's Metropolitan Police re-arrested a 24-year-old known online as 'Inocchi' on July 24, alleging he resold hundreds of prescription psychotropic pills to a 16-year-old girl in Kabukicho and told her to sell sex when she ran out of money.
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Niigata police re-arrested the 24-year-old operator and a 30-year-old employee of the 'Zenryoku!! Otome-zaka 46' soapland on July 22, alleging they signed contracts with five women to have them engage in prostitution—a fresh charge in a case that began as a provision-of-place bust on July 1.
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On July 22, 2026, Tokyo police re-arrested two suspects in an Ueno 'Thai massage' sex-shop ring on immigration charges, alleging they employed three foreign nationals holding student visas across four shops that took in about ¥343 million over four years.
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A Ministry of Justice study group reviewing Japan's 1956 Anti-Prostitution Act held its seventh session on July 16, 2026, moving from whether to punish sex buyers to how hard the law should hit—circulating new data on how prostitution cases are actually sentenced.
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Kagoshima prosecutors declined to indict a 29-year-old host-club operator accused of pressuring an indebted woman toward sex work—the collapse of the prefecture's first case brought under Japan's revised host-club law.
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Osaka Prefectural Police arrested two people running a Minami 'free information center' they say was a disguise for illegal host-club touting—a workaround built to slip past the city's tightened solicitation rules.
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Mie Prefectural Police arrested the 37-year-old operator of a Tsu nightspot called ROYCE for running it without a license, and are investigating a tip that girls under 18 waited on customers and drank alcohol there.
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A mid-July 2026 investigation into girls as young as 14 spending fortunes on 'men's underground idols' exposes a regulatory blind spot beside the one Japan just closed on host clubs—one that runs straight to Kabukicho's sidewalks.