A cameraman has been arrested for groping a gravure idol during a shoot.
The 61-year-old Nobuhiko Namai was arrested for touching the model on multiple occasions on a two-day shoot that he was handling for the production company where he works.
The alleged incident took place in October last year during a shoot in Chiba. It was not clear why it has taken so long for the incident to come to light or for police to act.
During the shoot, Namai is accused of touching the model's lower body without consent. He was in charge of filming for an image video they were shooting for release on DVD. ...
Police have arrested a Vietnamese man living in Hamamatsu for the alleged rape of a sex worker.
According to a report by TV Shizuoka, the unnamed man has admitted having sex with the woman but claims there was consent.
The 28-year-old works in the food and drink industry, and lives in Chuo Ward, Hamamatsu. The allegation relates to an incident at a love hotel in the same ward in late February.
It is unclear why it has taken this long for police to arrest him.
The sex worker is a woman -- presumably Japanese, though not specified in the report -- in her twenties who works for a ...
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 ...
Police have arrested four people on charges of criminally profiting off acting as go-betweens for women and brothels.
In the latest example of a general police crackdown on such brokers, 42-year-old Kazunori Inoue, who runs a beauty salon in Higashinari ward, Osaka, was arrested along with three accomplices, including a 30-year-old Korean-Japanese who runs a dispatching services company. They are suspected of hiding around ¥3.2 million of income, which came from fees gained for illegally introducing women to a brothel in Hiroshima between March and October last year.
Park, who was ...
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have announced the arrest on February 10 of a 40-year-old man from Osaka on charges of violating an employment law while acting as a go-between for an American brothels and a woman he scouted on the street for sex work.
The man is of no fixed employ and Korean nationality (probably nothing of note about that -- Ikuno, the area of Osaka where he is from, has the largest number of Korean Japanese, who often nominally retain South Korean citizenship).
He is accused of conspiring with others between February and April 2023 to pimp and introduce a woman in her twenties ...
Police have raided a brothel that offered services to foreign tourists, arresting seven for violating the prostitution law.
The establishment in Kabukicho, central Tokyo, provided Japanese sex workers for overseas visitors.
Police proudly showed the fruits of their efforts to reporters on February 4, which included English-language information ("Our shop provides Japanese-style service by Japanese girl. The service content may differ from that in your home country"), multiple phones, and cash in sixteen currencies.
The 54-year-old Japanese manager and other arrested six members of staff ...
A month ago, we wrote about the trial of former House of Representatives member Tamotsu Shiiki underway at Tokyo District Court, accused of sexually assaulting a junior high school first grader in a karaoke parlor in Kabukicho.
Shiiki's excuse was that he "didn't ejaculate." He also tried to claim that he was trying to help the 12-year-old in August last year. "I wanted to do something for her because she was a runaway. She was looking for someone to talk to." This claim rather falls down when we consider that Shiiki went to buy personal lubricant before taking the student to the karaoke ...
Last year, we reported on the strange case of the Japanese guy with four "wives." The situation seemed straight out of a manga and yet it was true.
In that case, the man and his harem were all relatively young. But age didn't stop another man.
The 76-year-old Hirohito Shibuya lived with nine wives in Higashiyamato, a suburb of Tokyo. Technically speaking, since polygamy is illegal in Japan, eight of the women were his ex-wives and he was only married to one of them.
Three of his children with the women also lived at the residence.
Shibuya was found dead on Sunday of an apparent suicide, ...
Police in Hyogo Prefecture have arrested a fisherman on suspicion of illegally filming women at local beaches.
The 53-year-old has admitted to using an infrared filter on a camera to take images of women in swimwear.
According to a police announcement on January 15, Norimasa Miyake allegedly took photos of eight women in swimwear between July 2023 and July last year. The women were aged from their teens to their forties, and were taking part in swimming and running events at beaches in Akashi and Minamiawaji in Hyogo, and Tamano in neighboring Okayama.
Police were tipped off to his ...
In Tokyo, we always see signage warning to be on the lookout for chikan (train groping) at stations and inside carriages. The government and police frequently issue awareness and prevention campaigns. We see videos on social media of passengers detaining a perpetrator or of suspects fleeing dangerously across the rails between platforms. And of course, there's no missing the presence of women-only carriages on most lines during rush hour periods.
But how common actually is chikan groping in Japan?
According to one new survey, it's very common: more than half of women in Tokyo have ...
