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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 - Child prostitution and child
pornography are serious problems in ***
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 - 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, sleepingbeautyslavery.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/japan-child-porn-cases-surge-to-record-high/ [accessed 5 June 2011] 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 - 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
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