A Solo Operator, Caught by a Paperwork Rule
Japan's law protecting people who appear in adult videos was written with studios in mind. On July 6, 2026, police in Nagoya applied it to a man working alone.
The Aichi Prefectural Police's public-safety division, together with the Nakamura Police Station, arrested a 38-year-old company employee from Nagoya's Naka Ward, identified in reports by the surname Kamiya, on suspicion of violating the AV Performance Victim Protection and Relief Act (AV shutsuen higai boshi-kyusai-ho)—the 2022 statute widely known in Japan as the "AV New Law." The arrest was reported by the Chunichi Shimbun and by Tokai TV, among other outlets.
What Police Allege
According to the accounts, Kamiya filmed three women—reported by the Chunichi Shimbun as 19 to 24 years old at the time—for adult videos in a one-room apartment in Nagoya's Nakamura Ward between roughly June and September of last year, and failed to hand them the written contract and explanatory documents the law requires producers to provide before filming.
Investigators say Kamiya was not a company but a one-man operation: he recruited the women through matching apps, paid them between 10,000 and 30,000 yen per video, shot and produced the material himself, and posted it to video-sharing sites. Police put his total sales at about 30 million yen. Filming equipment was seized, and investigators said they intend to pursue additional charges.
Kamiya has acknowledged the allegation. Asked why he had skipped the paperwork, he told police, in the phrasing carried by the reports, that "the women often said they didn't need the documents, so I came to find the exchange a hassle."
| Detail | As reported |
|---|---|
| Charge | Violation of the AV Performance Victim Protection and Relief Act (failure to provide required documents) |
| Suspect | Company employee, 38, of Naka Ward, Nagoya (surname Kamiya) |
| Alleged offense | Filmed 3 women (reported as ages 19–24) without giving them the required contract/disclosures |
| Period | Roughly June–September of last year |
| Location | One-room apartment, Nakamura Ward, Nagoya |
| Recruitment | Matching apps; paid 10,000–30,000 yen per video |
| Sales | About 30 million yen |
| Arrest date | July 6, 2026 |
| Agencies | Aichi Prefectural Police (public safety); Nakamura Police Station |
| Suspect's account | Admits the charge; called the paperwork "a hassle" |
Why the Missing Documents Are the Crime
To an outside reader, the offense can look technical—a producer who did not file forms. Under the AV New Law, that is exactly the point.
The law took effect in June 2022 after a years-long campaign against coerced and deceptive adult-video appearances. Rather than banning the work, it built a set of procedural guardrails around consent. Producers must give performers a written explanation of the shoot and a signed contract in advance; filming cannot begin until a waiting period has passed; the finished work cannot be released until a further interval; and a performer may cancel an appearance and demand that a released video be pulled for a defined window afterward. The paperwork is the mechanism through which those rights are delivered. Skipping it does not merely omit a formality—it strips a performer of the disclosures and cooling-off protections the statute guarantees, which is why the omission is itself a punishable act regardless of whether any individual performer complained.
That framing is what makes the Nagoya case notable. The women's stated indifference to the documents—if that account holds—does not, under the law, excuse their absence. The obligation runs to the producer.
An Enforcement Pattern Reaching Individuals
The case also illustrates how far the law now reaches. Early enforcement after 2022 tended to focus on established makers and their staff. This arrest targets a lone producer sourcing performers through consumer matching apps and distributing directly to streaming platforms—a model that has grown as filming and online distribution have become cheap enough for one person to run end to end. Framed against that shift, the arrest signals that the statute's obligations attach to anyone who films and sells such material, not only to companies with a name and an office.
None of the reporting indicates that the three women were minors or that they were coerced; the disclosed allegation is confined to the missing documents, with police signaling further investigation. As with any arrest, the suspect has not been charged in court, and the account so far is the authorities' and the suspect's own.
This article is compiled from reporting by the Chunichi Shimbun and Tokai TV (via Yahoo! News Japan), among others. Facts are attributed to those reports; the suspect's given-name reading is uncertain in English, so only the surname as reported is used, and points that remain unconfirmed are noted as such.