
A Shinjuku host has been arrested for luring a 16-year-old girl into his club so he could force her into prostitution, making her service three customers in half a day.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Nov 17, 2010 06:51 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Drugs, Guro, Law, Mahjong, Shinjuku, Yakuza, Yokohama

A man who used a saw to cut off a man’s head even as he begged to be killed first, his only response being to tell him to “stay still or I can’t cut your neck properly,” has been sentenced to hang in Japan’s first ever jury trial of a capital crime.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Jul 12, 2010 20:18 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Exhibitionism, Internet, One Piece, Police, Seiyuu, Shinjuku, Tattoos

A seiyuu from blockbuster anime One Piece has been arrested on charges of distributing obscene material after police took offence to pictures of the seiyuu’s nether regions posted to the seiyuu’s blog in order to highlight an interesting tattoo.
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High quality anime “Angel Beats” heroine Haruppe has been spotted moonlighting as an employee at a Shinjuku Tower Records store.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 31, 2009 15:08 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Chikan, Crime, Lolicon, Raep, Schoolgirls, Shinjuku, Toilets, Trains

Police have arrested a chikan who brazenly assaulted a schoolgirl on a train, dragging her off to the station toilets in order to rape her.
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The latest fashion amongst Japan’s notoriously effete men is none other than the skirt, with men about the fashionable districts of Shinjuku often to be seen wearing long or even short skirts.
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Virtual idol Hatsune Miku looks to be moonlighting as a hostess in a seedy Kabukicho hostess bar; the lady above, one of the establishment’s “cast” of paid companions, identifies herself only as “Hatsune Miku”.
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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.