Cops Grab 93,000 Porno DVDs, Scores Arrested

Author: Artefact
Categories: News, Tokyo
Date: May 19, 2008 15:28 JST

Tags: AV, Censorship, Crime, Kabukichou, Police, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Yakuza

$Cops Grab 93,000 Porno DVDs, Scores Arrested - Japanese policewomen don\'t, as a rule, look like this$

43 proprietors and employees of 42 shops selling “obscene” DVDs in Shinjuku’s Kabukichou red light district have been arrested for peddling smut, Asahi reports. Police claim the arrests are unprecedented in number.

The heinous crimes they allegedly committed were for 12 of their number to sell 141 “obscene” adult DVDs worth ¥102,000 ($1,000), and for the rest to display with intent to sell AV DVDs and magazines inside their shops, which each had monthly earnings of some ¥5,000,000; small fry indeed. How bold these criminals have become to sell adult materials inside their adult shops in the middle of the red light district. Police also helped themselves to all the porn in sight, grabbing 93,000 adult articles, they say. Enough to keep the police busy for a while it seems.

The article, and police, are silent on just in what manner these DVDs were “obscene”, my guess would be they fell afoul of local government or had mosaic issues, as the numbers seem rather large for age issues, but it is at any rate clear that Japan’s ludicrous censorship regime has claimed yet more victims, not that many tears will be shed for a mob of Yakuza pawns.

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Comment by xSASxZaros

18:17 20/03/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

"Enough to keep the police busy for a while it seems."

Hehe, I bet. :P

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Comment by Ota-Kool

06:11 28/06/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

No Way Philippine can beat it by a million copy of porn pirated DVD in one raid!

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Comment by tyciol

00:15 21/09/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

The Phillipines are a backwater corrupt nation though, not a paragon of development as Nihon.

Comment by Anonymous

01:10 07/07/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

>nihon not nippon
stupid weeaboo

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