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Tokyo police arrested a 53-year-old man in Kabukicho on July 9, 2026, accusing him of grabbing passersby and persistently soliciting them for a nightlife venue—an arrest police tie to a foreign tout ring blamed for 91 complaints and roughly 99 million yen in overcharging losses in the first half of the year.
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Shizuoka Prefectural Police arrested a 22-year-old host on July 7, 2026, accusing him of taking a first-time customer's smartphone and pressuring her to keep ordering drinks until a bill advertised as a flat 10,000 yen reached more than 100,000 yen—the prefecture's first arrest under the intimidation provisions of the revised Businesses Affecting Public Morals Regulation Act that took effect in June 2025.
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The Metropolitan Police Department re-arrested three leaders of 'Natural'—described as Japan's largest adult-entertainment scout group—on July 7, 2026, on suspicion of violating the Employment Security Act by steering women into unlicensed sex businesses; investigators say the group's executives dodged surveillance by holding meetings in rented conference rooms and karaoke boxes, rotating venues each time.
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Aichi prefectural police arrested a 38-year-old Nagoya company employee on July 6, 2026, on suspicion of filming three young women for adult videos he produced himself without giving them the written contracts and disclosures required under Japan's 2022 AV performer-protection law; police say he recruited via matching apps and posted the videos online, earning roughly 30 million yen.
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Tokyo police arrested about 40 people in the first half of 2026 for soliciting near Okubo Park in Kabukicho, the youngest a 16-year-old high school freshman; roughly 70% cited host-club or 'fan-spending' debts, and 11 were referred to welfare offices.
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Chiba prefectural police arrested seven people over a 'men's esthetic' salon in Funabashi that allegedly sold sex in a banned zone — the rebranded survivor of a February crackdown, now spread across roughly 25 rooms and grossing at least ¥30 million in four months.
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Tokyo police arrested three people on July 2, including a staffer at an organization meant to oversee foreign technical intern trainees, over four 'Thai massage' shops in Ueno that allegedly offered sex in a zone where such businesses are banned.
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Niigata prefectural police arrested three men on July 1 for allegedly providing rooms for prostitution at a Furumachi soapland, a case that investigators say grew out of a Tokyo Metropolitan Police crackdown on a nationwide scout group.
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Tokyo's Metropolitan Police arrested a 41-year-old man known in the nightlife trade as the 'legendary scout of Kabukicho,' accusing him of illegally referring two women to Taito Ward soaplands under the Employment Security Act after some two decades of recruiting.
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Two men were arrested in Fukuoka on June 29 for allegedly running an illegal sex business disguised as 'men's esthe' out of six apartment rooms in a banned district, with about 70 women on the books and peak sales above ¥5 million a month.