Gangsters pimp teenaged girls for sex at love hotels
Underworld investigative blogger Tokyo Reporter has shared a story about the arrest of three Yakuza gangsters on suspicion of introducing a 17-year-old girl to men for sex at love hotels in the Kabukicho red-light this March.
According to police, the teenage girl ran away from home in February. While walking through the streets of Kabukicho, she was approached by Doi, who asked, “How old are you? Will you have sex?” Miyashita then arranged an apartment the victim used while she engaged in prostitution. The girl told officers that she provided sexual services to about 100 men over a one-month period.
Apparently the financial arrangements worked so that the girl got about half the money paid by her customers in her new role as one of the multitudes of Kabukicho prostitutes working the sleazy love hotels in the district. Needless to say, the suspects took the rest.
She was kept at Miyashita’s accommodation and they also took her health insurance card so that she would find it harder to escape.
We can presume that eventually she did get away and report her captors, and is now in a safer place.
The sad story also reminds us of the so-called Kamimachi girls who sell sex in exchange for a roof over their heads.
Runaways wandering around Kabukicho — you have been warned! Stay away unless you want to get enslaved.
