
Major social networks in Japan have been forced to close hundreds if not thousands of online communities alleged to have been used for online dating, whilst police have launched a drive to close unregistered dating sites; all this comes as a result of a new law forcing any sites with dating activity to register with police or shut down.
An attempt to crack down on the popular schoolgirl job of prostitute, euphemised as “enjo kousai”, or compensated dating, is the reason for the ban.
With the choice to close or register, sites have little option, and major social sites Mixi and Mobagetown have been purging any suspect groups.
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A woman who had the gumption to tell another passenger on her train that his mobile phone gaming was a nuisance was viciously beaten for her trouble, leaving her with a broken jaw, we hear.
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This “gal”, or “gyaru”, a Japanese fashion tribe in remission in recent years, seems less than concerned at what her suitor (or rather, customer) gets up to, so long as she is not distracted from her important calls and soothing smoke.
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“I couldn’t afford the electricity” – a female prostitute who broke into her neighbour’s home using a key she stole and copied the year before, and then charged her phone, took such exception to the objections of her neighbour to this trespass that she began slashing her with a kitchen knife.
She was soon arrested, and claimed poverty had her bereft of lighting or heating, let alone the ability to charge her phone…
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- Author: Quen
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 12, 2008 03:12 JST
- Tags: Crime, Enjo Kousai, Fuji, Internet, Keitai, Lolicon, Old People, Schoolgirls, Shizuoka

A 79-year-old security guard has been arrested on the suspicion that he met a 16-year-old high-school girl through a keitai (mobile phone) dating site and arranged “improper” meetings at a local hotel in return for “several tens of thousand yen.”
Allegedly, the aged lolicon asked the schoolgirl “Is a 49-year-old ‘grampa’ OK?” before their meetings began.
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A teacher, as well as a shop manager, have been arrested for paying a 14-year-old schoolboy for sex.
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A schoolgirl who was routinely molested on her train commute to school struck back and caught the perpetrator red-handed, overpowering him and handing him over to authorities for arrest.
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A lady novelist has been arrested for a variety of indecent acts with an infatuated schoolgirl fan.
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A young lady (20) who had the temerity to charge her phone using a socket at a railway station has been arrested for theft of electricity, after a passerby called police to avert the robbery, having stolen 0.015 watt hours (or 54 joules), worth a shocking total of 0.03 yen ($0.0003).
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A grandfather (75), who attempted to beat to death his son (48) with a large pair of scissors/shears over his son’s decision to buy his middle school age daughter a mobile phone, has been arrested for attempted murder.
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“It’s undesirable for elementary schoolers to possess mobile phones”. With these sentiments, a group of LDP politicians has established the “Study Group for Ensuring the Protection of Elementary School Children from Mobile Phones”, and their stated objective is to introduce legislation before the Diet which will ban both elementary and middle school students from possessing mobile phones.
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