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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Yomiuri OnLine, 7
October 2008 www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=18620 [accessed 5 June 2011] Cases of child
prostitution involving dating-service cafes have been increasing sharply,
prompting some local governments to take measures such as banning people
under 18 from entering such establishments.
Inside the cafes, men choose women from among the female clientele and
try to secure dates with them. The system has triggered many cases of
prostitution involving minors. In a
sizable number of such cases, minors who entered the cafes purely out of
curiosity have been targeted. One such facility
near JR Yokohama Station displays a sign saying, "Coffee shop with manga
library--no entrance fee for women." The floor is separated into two
areas by a one-way mirror with the height of the floor in the men's area
about 50 centimeters lower than that of the women's. Male customers, some wearing business
suits, gaze at young women sitting on sofas through the one-way mirror. Female customers cannot see the men. The Protection Project - The Paul H. www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/japan.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
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ARCHIVES *** Hot Line Reaches Out To Women Forced Into
Sexual Slavery In Chie Matsumoto, Asian Sex Gazette, April
30, 2005 www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/japan/japan04news19.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] After the State
Department listed ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the
status of action against commercial exploitation of children - JAPAN [PDF] ECPAT International, 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/EAP/Global_Monitoring_Report-JAPAN.pdf [accessed 5 June 2011] Matchmaking or
dating websites have become a well-known channel for commercial sexual
exploitation of children (CSEC) in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61610.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] CHILDREN
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Trafficking of minors, teenage prostitution, dating for money, and child
pornography continued to be problems. According to the government, during the
year there were 1,582 sex‑related crimes associated with Internet
dating sites. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 January
2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/japan2004.html [accessed 28 February 2011] [51] The Committee
welcomes the adoption and implementation of the Law on Punishing Acts related
to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and on Protecting Children
(1999). However, it is concerned that:
(a) The Penal Code maintains a narrow definition of rape as an act
committed by a male against a female;
(b) All victims of sexual exploitation do not have access to
appropriate recovery and assistance services;
(c) There have been reports of child victims being treated as
criminals; (d) There have been reports
of the practice of "enjo kosai",
or compensated dating; (e) The low
minimum age of consent, which might contribute to the practice of "enjo kosai", hampers the
prosecution of sexual abuse of children. Web solicitation of kids shifting from
dating sites Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily
Yomiuri, February 20, 2009 www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-194177660/web-solicitation-kids-shifting.html [partially accessed 5 June 2011 - access
restricted] The number of
children who became victims of crimes, including child prostitution, last
year via Web sites other than dating sites rose to 792, compared with 724 who
became involved in crimes via dating sites, according to the National Police
Agency. The NPA is stepping
up its efforts on the presumption that the conduit for communication leading
to possible child prostitution is shifting away from dating sites to
self-introducing "profile" sites … Yomiuri OnLine, 7
October 2008 www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=18620 [accessed 5 June 2011] Cases of child
prostitution involving dating-service cafes have been increasing sharply,
prompting some local governments to take measures such as banning people
under 18 from entering such establishments.
Inside the cafes, men choose women from among the female clientele and
try to secure dates with them. The system has triggered many cases of
prostitution involving minors. In a
sizable number of such cases, minors who entered the cafes purely out of
curiosity have been targeted. One such facility
near JR Yokohama Station displays a sign saying, "Coffee shop with manga
library--no entrance fee for women." The floor is separated into two
areas by a one-way mirror with the height of the floor in the men's area
about 50 centimeters lower than that of the women's. Male customers, some wearing business
suits, gaze at young women sitting on sofas through the one-way mirror. Female customers cannot see the men. Agence France-Presse AFP, www.globaltimes.cn/world/asia-pacific/2011-02/627237.html [accessed 4 October 2012] A total of 618 children
under 18 were recorded as having fallen victim to pornographic exploitation,
up 52.6 percent, police said. The head of the
Polaris Project, a US-based anti-human trafficking group, last week told
Japanese lawmakers that “significant percentages of the images involve
children being gagged, bound, tied with ropes or even blindfolded”. The young ones William Sparrow, www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/JE10Dh01.html [accessed 5 June 2011] The practice of an
older man taking a young, school-aged Japanese girl out on a "date"
in exchange for money in Japan has one of
the lowest ages of sexual consent in the world; it's as low as 13 in metro
Tokyo and the national age of consent ranges between 13 and 18 depending on
the province. In fact, in Japan, the practice of having sex with teenage
girls is not prosecutable if the young woman says "yes". This is
where enjo kosai acts a
loophole; any girl saying "yes, but for 50,000 yen" (US$495)immediately renders the situation illegal. The brunt of
punishment, however, falls on the male customer, generally for solicitation
and prostitution. Such cases can be aggravated by the fact the female is a
minor, or under 18 in terms of recent legislation. This is where the
loophole becomes a pedophile's dream scenario. If he "dates" the
underage woman, buys her gifts and occasionally provides her with cash
ostensibly for shopping, buying books or spending time with friends, then the
money or gifts were not technically provided on a sex-for-money transaction.
Otherwise, this would equal prostitution and be punishable by law. Japan National Police Agency Targets Online
Dating Sites / Agency Wants Stricter Regulations as Current Law Being Ignored WUNRN News, Jan. 18, 2008 www.wunrn.com/news/2008/02_08/02_04_08/020408_japan.htm [accessed 5 June 2011] The NPA aims to
directly impose stricter regulations and beef up its monitoring of Internet
dating service operators, because the law governing such services, which
prohibits minors under 18 from using them, has been largely ignored. As a result, there have been numerous cases
of child prostitution in which many minors became victims. The service operators also would be obliged
to delete messages connected with underage girls posted on their Web site. According to the
NPA, there are about 5,000 dating service sites on the Internet. The number
of young people under 18 who were victims of sex crimes in connection with
dating service sites in 2006 increased 92 from the previous year to 1,153. Of
the victims, 95 percent accessed the sites via cell phone. Paedophilia: Agence France-Presse AFP, www.talkaboutsexxx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10531&sid=6d81ba7838387a49b17a4868be26b31c#p10531 [accessed 5 June 2011] [scroll down to
>>> Posted: Thu Oct
25, 2007 4:52 pm ] Cyber child prostitution on rise in Japan Agence France-Presse AFP, [accessed 5 June 2011] Arrests were made
in 1,808 cases of Internet crime, up by six cases from the same period last
year and the highest since 2003 when police started compiling similar
half-year data. For child
prostitution, in which minors meet with adult clients on dating and other
websites, the number of cases jumped 62.7 percent. August 29, 2007 www.crnjapan.com/articles/2007/en/20070829-teen_prostit_pair_arrested.html [[Last access date unavailable] Two Both men reportedly
got to know the girl through a cell-phone voice-mail dating service. Child pornography numbers hit record high
in Japan Brad Rice, 08/14/2007 www.japanator.com/child-pornography-numbers-hit-record-high-in-japan-6333.phtml [accessed 5 June 2011] Police said that 718 child prostitution cases were
reported during the period. The number of child victims in these cases
totaled 651. Two of the children were elementary school students, 210 were
junior high school students and 265 were high school students. High school pimp arrested for forcing 3
girls into prostitution Mainichi Daily News, July 9, 2007 fighthumantraffickingnews.blogspot.com/2007/07/high-school-pimp-arrested-for-forcing-3.html [accessed 5 June 2011] A high school boy
has been arrested for forcing three teenage girls into prostitution, police
announced Monday. Investigators are
interrogating the boy on suspicions that he forced the girls, aged 16 to 17,
to sell themselves to around 120 men between September last year and March
this year, netting about 3.8 million yen. The boy solicited
customers by placing an advertisement on a Website. He gave 60 percent of his
earnings to the girls while pocketing the reminder, according to
investigators. Record 316 child abuse victims reported in
2006 Mainichi Daily News, February 16, 2007 The contents of this article has been
republished within a blog and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 September 2011] Child prostitution
and pornography cases in which police apprehended suspects increased to a
record 2,229 incidents, an 8.8 percent increase compared with the previous
year. The figures highlight the difficult conditions under which many
children are being brought up. Police to promote cell-phone filtering to
stop students accessing 'harmful' sites Mainichi Daily News, 20 Jan 2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 June 2011] Between January and
November last year, 41 junior high school students involved in child
prostitution incidents uncovered by the MPD were found to have met their
clients through mobile dating sites. Police plan to approach school
parent-teacher associations to make them more aware of filtering systems that
can block out such content. Buddhist priest busted for child
prostitution Mainichi Daily News, October 5, 2006 www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/09_10/2006_10_05_MainichiDailyNews_BuddhistPriest.htm [accessed 5 June 2011] Ikarashi paid 20,000 yen
each to two third-year junior high school girls to have sex with him at a
hotel in Internet crimes peak in Japan Martyn Williams, PC
Advisor, 17 August 2006 www.pcadvisor.co.uk/opinion/internet/3268753/internet-crimes-peak-in-japan/ [accessed 5 June 2011] Cases of child
prostitution involving under-18s met through Internet dating sites totalled 169 cases in the six month period, a jump of 18
percent on the year-ago, while child pornography crimes totalled
97, up 43 percent. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/japan.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
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Child prostitution and child pornography are serious problems in Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Prostitution ring
earned 100 million yen using underage girls Mainichi Daily News, www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=51294 [accessed 5 June 2011] The operators of a
Fukuoka-based prostitution ring called "Candy Club" sent 61 teenage
girls to customers some 3,000 times over an 18-month period beginning in
March last year, raking in sales of about 100 million yen, police
investigators have learned. The club
reportedly solicited clients through cell-phone based sites. Some of the
girls were as young as 14, and none were older than 17. One of the girls
reportedly brought in 3 million yen for the ring over two months. Child Exploitation on the Internet [DOC] Mofolake Akinwonmi,
CS5038 [accessed 5 June 2011] CHILD PROSTITUTION - In Is the Eroticisation
of Children in Japanese Anime a Serious Social Problem? Tony McNicol, The
At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 June 2011] ECPAT released an
annual report drawing attention to "compensated dating" or "enjo-kosai," a form of amateur teenage prostitution
they say is a serious problem in At Last, Roger and Machiko
Buckley, The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/1999/05/28/opinion/28iht-edbuck.t.html [accessed 5 June 2011] The Diet's belated
passage of legislation banning child prostitution is evidence of shifting
attitudes in Japanese society. Law for Punishing
Acts Related to Child Prostitution INTERPOL, Legislation of INTERPOL member
states on sexual offences against children, Spring 2006 www.interpol.int/Public/Children/SexualAbuse/NationalLaws/csaJapan.asp [accessed 5 June 2011] ARTICLE 1 -
OBJECTIVE
- The objective of this Law is to protect the rights of children by
prescribing punishment for acts related to child prostitution and child pornography,
and by establishing measures including the giving of appropriate protection
to children who have suffered physically and/or mentally from the said acts. Child
Prostitution Problem Focus Of Canadian Television Network CTV, Dec. 16 2001 www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/CTVNewsAt11/20011216/ctvnews832857/ [accessed 5 June 2011] Host country Enjo kosai or child prostitution in Japan My www.mynippon.com/culture/culturehome.htm [accessed 5 June 2011] This fact of
Japanese life, if not understood without complete context, sounds
repulsive. Most non-Japanese people
analyze this situation by saying, “Oh! These teenage girls have no idea about
the risks that they are putting themselves to – both physical and emotional. There should be a law banning all
this”. We believe that enjo kosai is definitely not a
healthy practice but here are some facts about Japanese society that better
explain the background of this trend in Japan. A Living Hell; A cultural perspective
on Child Prostitution in the Jim Blaylock, 27 Feb, 2001 www.ageofconsent.com/comments/alivinghell.htm [accessed 5 June 2011] In this treatise,
we will examine the cultural attitudes and special relations regarding the
plague of sexual abuse of children in the All
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