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- Tokyo Reported
Osaka scouting group illegally referred women to soaplands
OSAKA (TR) – Law enforcement in Aichi and Kagawa prefectures have rearrested four men from Osaka City-based commercial sex scouting group Seed Advertising for illegally referring women to soapland bathhouses, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Apr. 16). Takeru Fukuyama, 27, is senior member of Seed Advertising. Police rearrested Fukuyama and three associates for introducing women to a soapland in Takamatsu City, Kagawa. Three other associates were arrested in this case for the first time. Police accused the seven suspects of violating the Employment Security Act regarding introductions for harmful business purposes. Seed Advertising formed in January 2022. From that time until this past March, the group made a total of at least 1.3 billion yen in profits from women's introduction fees and other sources, according to Aichi Prefectural Police. The group, which has up to 10 members, has conducted transactions with approximately 400 adult entertainment establishments in 46 prefectures and administrative districts. It is suspected that freelance scouts arranged for women they recruited on social-networking sites to be placed in adult entertainment establishments and received 15 percent of the women's sales as 'scout kickbacks.' The rearrest charges for Fukuyama and his associates allege that they introduced a woman in her early 20s to a soapland in Takamatsu City around June 11 last year. Fukuyama and his associates had been arrested twice before on suspicion of introducing other women in their 20s to soapland businesses in Kaga and Kofu cities, Ishikawa Prefecture.
South China Morning Post
06-03-2025
- South China Morning Post
Japanese sex scouts: police fight worrying trend of women recruited into prostitution
Japanese police have ramped up crackdowns on sex worker scout groups amid a worrying trend of women going into prostitution to pay off debts incurred at entertainment clubs. Advertisement Tokyo police on Wednesday arrested 27-year-old Tatsuya Kitamura, believed to be a senior member of the recruitment group Access, local media reported. He was detained over violating the Employment Security Act by introducing a woman in her 20s to work at two adult entertainment outlets in Tokyo in July 2024. The two stores were believed to have recruited about 280 women over a seven-month period, paying 6.5 million yen (US$43,500) to scout groups in referral fees, or 'scout backs'. According to the force, Access sent numerous victims to about 350 sex service establishments and earned 7 billion yen from its operations over the past five years. 06:40 Is Tokyo turning into Asia's new sex tourism destination? Is Tokyo turning into Asia's new sex tourism destination? It charged 15 per cent of a woman's earnings as referral fees, and collected cash mailed to a shell office to conceal the flow of money, Jiji Press agency reported.
