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The Tokyo District Court sentenced the former manager of an Ikebukuro girls bar to seven years on September 9 for running a woman's prostitution and sexually assaulting her. The investigation began when police arrested the woman herself, under the one clause of Japan's Anti-Prostitution Act that reaches the person selling.
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Seiryumon in Shinbashi prices two entirely different specialties at identical yen, charges a flat ¥3,000 to combine them at every course length, and bills a two-woman booking at exactly double — no premium, no discount, across all seven rungs. I checked every line with a calculator and found precisely one place the board stops being consistent: twenty minutes costs ¥6,000 if you buy it up front and ¥8,000 if you buy it late.
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Premier League is an image-club specialist in Shin-Okubo with a four-rung board, forty free costumes and an eight-scenario menu in which seven scenes begin without you ever seeing her face. Two numbers run the visit: the ¥2,500 room fee quietly flips the best-value course from the 90 to the 120, and the shop's own reservation rule caps the visible schedule at two days — which is why its seven-day grid is 94% empty.
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Mix Japan is a Gotanda newhalf deriheru whose transport ladder runs ¥1,000 to ¥6,000 by ward — a 30% surcharge on a one-hour booking. Its time ladder runs perfectly straight to three hours and then bends against you, and at the outermost transport band those two errors cancel so precisely that every course from seven to ten hours costs ¥300 a minute, all-in, to the yen.
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LIMIT BREAK in Kinshicho prices time at a flat ¥220 a minute — so exactly that every course, every fee and every campaign figure on the board is a whole number of ¥220 minutes, except the two 180-minute prices. The home-visit course sells you the dispatch fee back as ten free minutes. The '¥7,700 OFF' campaign delivers ¥1,100. And there is an ¥11,000 line on this board with the word 'foreigner' next to it that every reader of this site needs to see before they dial.
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Karent is a married-woman deriheru in Uguisudani with a three-rung price board, six free-dispatch stations, and 141 women on the books. Two things fall out of the numbers: the 100-minute course the shop recommends is the worst per-minute rate on the board, and the roster — confirmed across both of the shop's own sites — peaks at 3 p.m. and is two-thirds gone by seven. The hours say evening. The schedule says lunch.
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Ikebukuro Hitozuma Adejo opens at nine in the morning, closes at midnight, and staffs the whole day with women in their thirties and nobody else. I booked it on a Tuesday before lunch to see what a delivery health shop looks like when it has deliberately amputated its own night shift — and found a price ladder that refuses to reward long bookings, a ¥1,000 designation fee that rewrites how you use the board, and two different 'regular prices' printed on the same page.
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Tokyo police arrested four men on September 9 over a Shinjuku apartment they say was fitted out as a 'play room' for a shop that advertised itself as a men's esthetic salon and charged 10,000 yen for 15 minutes. Investigators put its takings at about 80 million yen since March. The statute they were booked under has not raised its fine ceilings since 1956.
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Royal Hachioji is a 24-hour standard-tier deriheru in west Tokyo whose cheapest course — 50 minutes for ¥8,000 — is also its worst per-minute rate. Run the arithmetic on the whole board and the floor sits at 100 minutes: ¥12,000 on the menu, ¥9,000 with the Heaven coupon, ¥90 a minute. Meanwhile a 30-minute extension in the room costs ¥12,000, three times what the same half hour costs if you buy it before you dial. Here is the full out-the-door math on a shop that sells everything on the phone call and refuses all changes after.
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