We recently wrote about the frankly shocking papakatsu compensated dating fraud perpetuated by a woman to fund her trips to host clubs. It shows many things, not least the extraordinary lengths some women will go to to feed their addiction to host clubs. This issue has drawn attention of late, with host clubs seen as more exploitative than hostess clubs. Host clubs have developed an image as an ecosystem that preys on vulnerable women and with a financial structure that leads to debt, whereby women are encouraged to rack up huge bills that they pay later. Many of the women who go to host ...

As reported before on this blog, the implications of the change in the age of legal adulthood in Japan from 20 to 18 for the adult industry are attracted negative attention. There are fears that teenagers will be forced into contracts and productions they don't want to make, especially as it comes in the relatively recent wake of coercion scandals in the industry. The change comes into effect from April 1, the start of the new fiscal year in Japan. Women (and men) aged 18 and 19 will now be able to make contracts without parental consent, which includes contracts to appear in adult content ...

April marks the start of the 2022 fiscal and academic years in Japan. It also brings with a major change for young people: the age of adulthood will come down from 20 to 18. Eighteen- and 19-year-olds can already vote, so this change has already been in the works for a while. One of the major consequences of this is regards contracts (somewhat strangely, the age for smoking, drinking, and gambling -- all the good things about being an adult -- will remain 20). In the past, they needed parental consent to sign a commercial contract until they reached the age of majority. Given that a lot of ...

Japanese politics is not a pretty sight. Lots of wrinkly men from powerful dynasties arguing over their factions and minor policies while ignoring the bigger issues. At night they take off to the expensive hostess clubs of Ginza and spend time with their younger mistresses. But there are a few lights in this world of darkness. One of them is the rather attractive Ayaka Shiomura, a 35-year-old politician for Setagaya in the Tokyo Assembly, one of the members of the left-leaning Your Party. Yesterday she was giving a speech to the Tokyo Assembly on improving government support for women ...