Men arrested over alleged prostitution for inbound tourists in Tokyo

allegedly forcing women into prostitution, 

Uh, no. Other media report they recruited the women whle they were already selling themselves at Okubo Park at night.

The latest case uncovered in the heart of Shinjuku

"uncovered"? LOL. If the cops were astute, they wouldn't have to "uncover" anything in "the heart of Shinjuku." It's pretty much in the open in that part of town. You see it every night at Okubo Park, nearly all of it catering to Japanese men. Why did the cops target this niche aspect of it instead of a full fledged crackdown -- if prostitution is so bad?

Unfortunately more tourists bring more crime. Prostitution is rare on the streets of Japan. Hopefully Tokyo doesn’t become like Bangkok which is more popular for sex tourism.

Point of order: are the local establishments serving inbound tourists without descrimination?

Prostitution is rare on the streets of Japan.

100% agree

lol. So basically those signs that say “only Japanese” are for the law. The other 1000 places are okay just don’t target foreigners. With all the scams in kabuki conic on the legal one.

What's the big deal here!?

Make it LEGAL, collect the taxes, and save yourselves all the headaches.

Prostitution is well and alive everywhere and to deny it or make it illegal is ignorance and hypocrite.

""Unfortunately more tourists bring more crime. Prostitution is rare on the streets of Japan. Hopefully Tokyo doesn’t become like Bangkok which is more popular for sex tourism.""

Japan is no diff. than the rest, this is what happens when people keep their heads in the sand, LOL

Uh, no. Other media report they recruited the women while they were already selling themselves at Okubo Park at night.

"uncovered"? LOL. If the cops were astute, they wouldn't have to "uncover" anything in "the heart of Shinjuku." It's pretty much in the open in that part of town. You see it every night at Okubo Park, nearly all of it catering to Japanese men. Why did the cops target this niche aspect of it instead of a full fledged crackdown -- if prostitution is so bad?

Exactly! Prostitution is rampant in Kabukicho! Everybody knows it. Japan Today has even published articles on it.

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“Backstreet stories: Small Kabukicho park has become a haven for hookers”

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/backstreet-stories-small-kabukicho-park-has-become-a-haven-for-hookers

including Chinese, Indian and Argentine bills

If this correlate with customer to that place , then that gives us a perspective which country are really doing 買春ツアー in Japan.

Prostitution is rare on the streets of Japan. 100% agree

If you want to get into semantics, yeah, maybe so. But prostitution is far from "rare" in Japan.

Nearly every major city, and not so "major" one's as well, have the proverbial red light districts, and let's not even begin to talk about "fashion-health" or "fashion-deli" services.

No need to walk the streets when your customer base let's their fingers do the walking on their smart phones!

Vast majority of money in Japanese prostitution goes to hosts. But they are so influential in media and entertainment that any negative press is quickly suppressed.

Even here, few people are allowed to speak any ill about hosts, who now likely make up the majority of Japanese who make over 500M a year in annual income and much of the new rich

JGovt try to get money from tourist by squeezing tourist pocket through levy tax for their lodging, airport tax, even try to build casino. However one thing being slipped is 買春ツアー

That's the oldest profession in history of mankind how can they missed this.

After all Japan has sopad land in every big cities.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-japans-secretive-soapland-brothels-operate/

Dark side of Japan the government don't want you to realize, so many abandoned women, who has to fend for themselves, when foreigners fresh off the boat gets all welfare money.

That part of Tokyo has been there forever, this is not news.

Have they figured out the rackets of women coming here from South East Asia on tourist visas to work in massage parlours yet? Oh yeah, that would require real effort for the local boys in blue.

There are areas of Kobe where whole streets are full of large shops catering to selling sex.

Some of those businesses accept foreigners too.

The J-cops do their rounds of the area knowing full well what happens in those buildings too.

Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing to see.

(waves for everyone to keep walking)

Move along! Move along!

Its double standards again. It involves foreigners, which is the great taboo. Its the worst kept secret in the world that prostitution is everywhere in Japan, and no amount of euphemisms can disguise it. This has made the news because it doesn't fit the narrative. They want the image of Japan to be Nintendo, tea ceremonies, cuisine, castles and gundam. They don't want foreign people thinking of Japan as a haven for sex tourism.

Vast majority of money in Japanese prostitution goes to hosts. But they are so influential in media and entertainment that any negative press is quickly suppressed.

Even here, few people are allowed to speak any ill about hosts, who now likely make up the majority of Japanese who make over 500M a year in annual income and much of the new rich

Where in the world does this come from? It would be really nice to see some facts to actually support this theory.

WoodyLee

Japan is just as bad as Thailand you just don’t see it. Try looking around Kawasaki or so many places along Nabu line. When it gets dark women come out to earn.

Where in the world does this come from? It would be really nice to see some facts to actually support this theory.

Already the host army have mobilized to defend hosts. This is how you know how powerful they are in Japan. In fact, in here anything negative regarding hosts are deleted. Across reddit, hosts have a ton of people defending hosts as the good people in Japan, with multiple youtubers promoting host clubs in Japan as well.

https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/371526

Legalize it, regulate it so it is controlled and safe not everywhere and dodgy as hell, and tax it. The current policy of just turning the blind eye is madness. It invites exploitation.

After all Japan has soap land in every big cities.

None of which are illegal. They fall into a grey area. If vaginal sex is "provided" it is considered to be illegal. However it is nearly impossible to know what is going on in every shower, bathtub, or on a air mattress .

So soap lands can officially only offer anything other than vaginal sex, and they stay legal.

Prostitution is rare on the streets of Japan.

The "adult entertainment" industry is HUGE in Japan. There are "soap lands" literally next door to police boxes.

It is everywhere if you know where or what to look for.

Good or bad is not the question. It's life essential, because no one of us would exist without in each case any other two people having had sex together.

Nothing new, all countries have prostitution..

'the world's oldest profession' was around long before puritan western 'standards' began to look down on it. It should all be legal and held in the same regard as massages.