Child Prostitution, Pornography in Japan - 2006

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Child Prostitution and Pornography - 2007

2006

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• NPA: 30% of porn comics feature sex with kids; (E) December 28, 2006; The agency took 100 samples from about 9,000 pornographic comics last month, and found 30 that included sexual acts with children. Five involved children of primary school age or younger.

• Tokyo medical school student arrested for molesting 13-year-old girl; (J) December 19, 2006.

• Porn boss arrested over solicitation of minors; (EJ) December 15, 2006.

• Gov't official pays 14-year-old girl for sex, arrested for child prostitution; (J) November 28, 2006.

• Child prostitution: Man arrested for indecent behaviour with 2 high school girls; (J) November 21, 2006.

• 39-year-old Self Defence Force member held for child prostitution; (J) November 17, 2006; The suspect paid ¥40,000 to a 16-year-old girl for sexual services.

• Three men arrested on child pornography charges; (J) November 13, 2006; The men photographed and published pornographic images of a junior high school girl on the internet.

• Man busted for having sex with 13-year-old girl; (J) November 10, 2006.

• Salaryman held for selling obscene images of kindergarten and primary school children over the internet; (J) November 10, 2006.

• NPA investigation: report on internet child pornography and other cyber-crime nationwide; (J) October 27, 2006.

• Japan cited as child porn host in British report; (E) October 25, 2006.

• Former editor arrested for violating the child pornography law; (J) October 23, 2006; The magazine took images from a DVD with indecent recordings of elementary and junior high school girls and reprinted them in it's November issue last year.

• Teenage girl forced to have sex with 300 men within 8-month period; (EJ) October 12, 2006.

• Ex-Self Defence Force section chief arrested; pays 13-year-old girl for sex; (J) September 28, 2006.

• Members of child porn ring arrested; (EJ) August 13, 2006; The police seized several tens of thousands of obscene pictures, which include those of a girl being raped by a man not identified as a member of the group.

2004

• Schoolgirls sniff gold in pantie crackdown; (E) June 19, 2004; "The ordinance may have shut down the burusera stores, but it has only sparked a thriving trade in schoolgirls using mobile phone sites to conduct direct sales to customers without needing a middleman...," says Gomez Yamada, a writer specializing on teen girl topics.

Offences against Children by Police Officers, Priests, Doctors etc

2006

• Update: Clergyman, church ordered to pay damages to 7 female followers over sexual abuse; (EJ) December 2, 2006; Kin was convicted of sexually violating seven girls aged between 12 and 16 in his pastor's office and other locations between March 2001 and September 2004. He faced charges for 22 attacks, including one attempted sexual assault.

• Gynecologist arrested for child prostitution claims he didn't know her age; (EJ) November 24, 2006; Sekiguchi paid 50,000 yen to the 15-year-old, third-year junior high school girl to have sex with him at a hotel in Saitama in August last year.

• Youths busted for extorting money from doctor over teen prostitution; (EJ) November 24, 2006; Okui is accused of handing the 17-year-old girl 10,000 yen and engaging in indecent acts with her at a hotel in Tokyo's Shinagawa-ku in September 2005.

• Ex-cop's 20-year sentence upheld for abducting, molesting 5 school girls; (EJ) November 6, 2006; Tomita abducted five girls aged 7 to 10 in Fukuoka and Saga prefectures between May 2001 and February 2004, and molested them in his car before fleeing. Update: (J) June 28, 2007; Ex-police officer's appeal to Supreme Court rejected.

• Fukushima city official fired after it was found he had sex with teenage girl;　(J) October 21, 2006.

• Girl sues for 5.6 million yen after stop by aggressive cop causes PTSD; (EJ) October 14, 2006.

• Buddhist priest busted for child prostitution; (EJ) October 5, 2006.

• Gynaecologist in court; accused of committing indecent acts on teenage girls during visits to clinic; (J) October 4, 2006.

• Cosmetic surgeon busted for paying high school girl for sex; (EJ) September 26, 2006.

• Local government official in Kanagawa Prefecture pays 14-year-old schoolgirl ¥20,000 for sex; (J) September 20, 2006; He was arrested for violating the child prostitution and pornography law.

• Chiba cop arrested for molesting schoolgirl in public toilet; (E) September 13, 2006.

Other Media Coverage

• Precipitated by a case of 4 teenage school girls being detained in Shibuya by a suicidal man who had solicited them for sex, the government has introduced harsher new penalties for adults buying sex from children under 18, and those engaged in child pornography. The new rules ban child porn by web or email, taking pornographic photos of minors, and soliciting or engaging in sexual acts with minors. The really excellent part of the new legislation is that it applies to Japanese nationals overseas as well. This will put a severe dent in sex tours to Thailand. Penalties will range up to imprisonment for up to seven years and/or fines of up to JPY10m. (Source: TT commentary Jun 11, 2004)