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Sendai Court Gives Prison Terms to Two Men Over Unlicensed Kokubuncho Girls Bar That Employed a Minor
The Sendai District Court on October 13, 2026, sentenced the operator of an unlicensed girls bar in the Kokubuncho nightlife district to 16 months' confinement and a ¥2 million fine, and a second man to four months and ¥600,000. Neither sentence was suspended. The court found they had a girl under 18 entertain customers.