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Neighbors Told the Landlord. In Hamamatsu, That Ended a 'Men's Esthe' in a Banned Zone News
Shizuoka

Neighbors Told the Landlord. In Hamamatsu, That Ended a 'Men's Esthe' in a Banned Zone

Shizuoka police arrested three women on August 8 over a 'men's esthe' allegedly selling sexual services from an apartment unit in a Hamamatsu district where storefront sex businesses are banned — a case that began when tenants complained to the building's management company about the traffic. A fourth woman found inside was arrested on suspicion of overstaying her visa by four years.

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The Uniform Was the Point: Tokyo Police Arrest Man Over AI Sexual Deepfakes, Refer the 17-Year-Old Who Ordered Them News
Tokyo

The Uniform Was the Point: Tokyo Police Arrest Man Over AI Sexual Deepfakes, Refer the 17-Year-Old Who Ordered Them

The Metropolitan Police Department announced on August 3, 2026 the arrest of a 32-year-old company employee accused of using paid generative AI to strip real women in track and gym uniforms and post the results online, and the referral to prosecutors of a 17-year-old who allegedly commissioned about half of them — a case that exposes how little of Japan's law actually reaches sexual deepfakes.

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The Threat Was the Transaction: Osaka Police Re-Arrest Man Accused of Blackmailing 'Papakatsu' Teenagers Into Sex News
Osaka

The Threat Was the Transaction: Osaka Police Re-Arrest Man Accused of Blackmailing 'Papakatsu' Teenagers Into Sex

Osaka prefectural police re-arrested a 44-year-old unemployed man on July 30, 2026, accusing him of photographing a high school student's ID at a paid-dating meeting and then threatening to tell her parents and school unless she met him again — a case investigators say may involve more than a dozen women, and one that turns on the leverage Japan's own laws hand to a blackmailer.

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