The Japanese tabloid Flash has run an extraordinary interview with a former soapland sex worker with an elite education, and today works as an administrative scrivener.
Sumika Hori (保利澄香) was born into an elite family of doctors in Akita Prefecture, in northern Japan.
She endured humiliating experiences during childhood, such as being called fat by her family, and she ran away from her family home. She successfully escaped by enrolling in a high school with a dormitory in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, but voluntarily withdrew due to various circumstances, leading to an unstable ...
Is this the end of the streetwalker (tachinbo) phenomenon in Okubo Park? The area on the edge of Kabukicho, Shinjuku, in central Tokyo became notorious during and shortly after the pandemic for young women standing and waiting for men to solicit sex for as little as ¥10,000 a session.
It prompted a moral panic, driven by social media content and mainstream media reports, amid suggestions that most of the young women were doing it to fund their host club debts (at times directly pimped out by hosts) or pay for their expensive fandom (oshi).
Now Shueisha Online reports that the women have ...
Japan is inching toward a legal revision that would make it illegal to pay for sex.
As part of a review of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the Ministry of Justice presented a draft report based on prior discussions to an expert panel on August 24, according to the Asahi Shimbun.
The draft outlines a direction to expand the scope of offenses regarding solicitation. At present, solicitation is punishable only for the seller, but the revision would expand this to include the buyer. The proposed revisions would also raise the maximum fine. The ministry is coordinating plans to finalize the report in ...
A primary school teacher in Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, has been dismissed for attempting to secretly film a female employee at a sex establishment.
The male teacher worked at Naka Daiichi Elementary School in Kakamigahara, but was dismissed by the Gifu Prefectural Board of Education on June 19, according to multiple news reports.
In mid-December last year, the teacher attempted to record video footage of a prostitute at a sex establishment in Saitama Prefecture using a smartphone. The woman noticed what he was doing and the police were called. The Saitama Prefectural Police then ...
Last week, we reported on the arrest and deportation from Taiwan of porn star Mai Fujisaki, who had allegedly traveled there to engage in sex work.
Such cases are increasing (due to debts, the weak yen, and limited economic prospects in Japan), so much so that it is having serious repercussions for solo female travelers from East Asia, even if they are traveling for purely innocent purposes. Another story from last week was about porn star Yua Fukuda, who was detained at an airport in New Zealand, held for six hours, and then deported.
On June 12, Fukuda revealed on X how she was escorted ...
On the evening of June 7, adult video actress Mai Fujisaki issued an apology on social media apologizing "for the worry and trouble caused by some media reports."
This refers to reports in Taiwanese media outlet on June 3 and later picked up by Japanese media that Fujisaki had entered Taiwan on a tourist visa and illegally engaged in prostitution, leading to her arrest in a hotel in Tianmu, a high-end residential area of Taipei, and subsequently deportation.
Fujisaki acknowledged the reports. "The incident in question occurred about six months ago." She then expressed deep remorse, ...
A pink companion is an old-fashioned term for a cross between a hostess, stripper, and sex worker at a hot spring resort.
Hot spring (onsen) resorts are now places for wellness and luxury, but traditionally were closely associated with erotic pleasures, either for newly married couples or guys looking for a good time with geisha, hostesses, and sex workers. It's also why sex museums were often at such resorts.
Pink companions (sometimes called super companions) will officially stop short of providing actual sex to guests, but they wear provocative clothing or nothing but underwear while ...
The number of sex services and brothels for women in Japan is gradually on the rise. The number currently registered on the sex industry information site Kaikan is said to be around 400 nationwide. A new book, Thoughts on Money, Care, and Desire After Using a Sex Service for Women Because I Was Lonely, written by Chiaki Fujitani and published by Chuokoron Shinsha in March, discusses this rapidly developing industry.
Shueisha Online recently interviewed the author about the trend. The following is an edited translation of the article.
In recent years, female-oriented sex establishments ...
Following recent report that nearly half of men and 4% of women have used sex workers, and that the sex industry is shifting toward a model centered on in-call services instead of brothels, there is much public debate right now in Japan about prostitution.
The TV show Abema Prime recently hosted a discussion about the merits of punishing customers, something that may become possible in the future with proposed changes to current legislation under review.
The author, former Nikkei reporter, graduate if Keio University, and ex-porn star Suzumi Suzuki (pictured) was one of the guests. She ...
Following the earlier report about discussions underway to review the Prostitution Prevention Law to include the possibility of penalties for those who pay for sex services in Japan, the Asahi Shimbun recently wrote about the sheer scale of the sex industry in Japan.
The market for delivery health services (as call-girl services are euphemistically known) alone is ¥1.4 trillion. The newspaper describes Japan as a "sex industry superpower" whose growth has been fostered by a "Galapagos-like" legal system.
The Prostitution Prevention Law only covers actual full sexual intercourse between men ...
