Two Osaka men arrested for pimping 16-year-old girl to 100 men in Tohoku
Another day, another grim piece of news from Osaka.
Local police have arrested 25-year-old Kaito Takimoto of no known occupation and 21-year-old Hayato Niiyama on suspicion of violating the prostitution law and kidnapping for profit.
Last June, the pair are said to have approached a 16-year-old girl by the famous Glico Man billboard on Dotonbori and offered her the chance to make a million yen.
Niiyama later drove her to the Tohoku region of northeast Japan, where she did sex work in several prefectures between June 15 and June 25.
Takimoto and Niiyama pretended to be women on deai-kei “encounter” websites and catfished men. They drove the girl to the hotel where the men were waiting. In this way, according to a report in Friday Digital, she would have sex with around 10 men a day for 10 days straight — over 100 guys!
The girl was apparently servicing men from 10 in the morning to 10 at night. In that time, she supposedly ate only one full meal, which was a bento box from a convenience store.
The men would give her ¥15,000 per session, which the girl handed over to Niiyama, the driver.
Once the “tour” was done, Niiyama and the girl went back to Osaka at the end of June. The earnings were ¥1.5 million, of which the girl only got ¥600,000, despite the promise they made that she would make a full million. Niiyama took the rest as his cut.
The next month, the girl was by chance questioned by Osaka police and this led to the discovery of the case.
She started going to the Glico Man billboard area in 2023 and left home in November last year. She was able to eat and live through doing compensated dating with older men, known as papakatsu. She was also going to concept cafes and needed money to support her oshi (fandom).
Dotonbori in central Osaka is similar to Kabukicho in Tokyo, with the area by the canal under the Glico Man and Ebisubashi bridge, a notorious hangout for young runaways, delinquents, and the vulnerable, much like how kids now gather in the main square in Kabukicho (where they are picked up by men).
It’s not exactly the clean and positive image that Osaka wants to project to the world as it prepares to host the expo this year.
3 Comments
They deserve doublejail time for being thieves
That said the chick is probably the loosest 16 yearold pussy in Japan
10 guys a day wow
“the girl was by chance questioned by Osaka police ”
Uh…. can you elaborate? I mean she was just walking down the street and some pigs pulled up and started asking her about paid sex, er…. ???
@Benjy Bronk
Of course, we would elaborate if we had more information, but nothing was included in news reports. It is very, very common for Japanese police to stop and question people on the street, and they do it all the time with young, vulnerable-looking people in areas that are under a lot of scrutiny, such as Dotonbori in Osaka and Kabukicho in Tokyo.