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Out To Women Forced Into Sexual Slavery In Japan After the State Department listed Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - 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) - 2004 [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. Paedophilia: Southeast Asia's sordid secret - Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007
4:52 pm Australia and Japan, sources of
child sex tourists, have dealt with the issue in vastly different ways. In Japan, criticised
as the world's main producer of underage pornography, the number of
prosecutions involving child prostitution and pornography has risen in recent
years -- peaking at 1,080 cases in the first half of last year. But, said Keiko Saito, a Tokyo-based ECPAT
official: "The government has done nothing to stop sex tourists from
Japan." One Japanese man was
sentenced to prison after having sex with a 15-year-old Cambodian girl and
posting pictures on his homepage last year but his sentence was suspended
after he paid the girl compensation. Cyber
child prostitution on rise in Japan For child prostitution, in which
minors meet with adult clients on dating and other websites, the number of
cases jumped 62.7 percent. Nagoya
pair arrested for using teenage prostitute Two Nagoya men who paid a teenage
girl for sex despite knowing she was aged under 18
have been arrested, police said. Both men reportedly got to know
the girl through a cell-phone voice-mail dating service. As for child pornography, which
was also included in the bi-annual report, the Mainichi cites: “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 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 - February 15, 2007 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 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 Ikarashi paid 20,000 yen each to two
third-year junior high school girls to have sex with him at a hotel in
Niigata in January 2005, local police said. The priest had got acquainted
with the girls through a telephone dating club in Niigata, according to
investigators. 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. ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
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ring earned 100 million yen using underage girls 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 Prostitution Through Internet Spirals In Japan Child prostitution is rising in Is the Eroticisation of Children in Japanese Anime a Serious
Social Problem? 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, Japan Is
Shamed Into Outlawing Child Prostitution 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 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 Japan Summit Host country Enjo kosai or child prostitution in Japan 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 cultural perspective on Child Prostitution in the Far East In this treatise, we will examine
the cultural attitudes and special relations regarding the plague of sexual
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