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ENJO KOSAI

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2019
U.S. State Department keeps Japan on top tier of human trafficking list for second year
Japan remained in a group of countries the United States judges to fully meet minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, according to a State Department report released Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 31, 2016
Fukuoka police expand undercover network to halt teen prostitution
Amid the growing problem of teenage prostitution in Japan, Fukuoka Prefectural Police are stepping up surveillance on young girls who are offering sex via the internet and trying to prevent such cases by posing as potential clients.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2015
U.N. official backtracks on Japan schoolgirl 'compensated dating' claim
A special rapporteur for the United Nations effectively retracts her allegation that 13 percent of high school girls in Japan are engaged in enjo kosai.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 14, 2013
Japanese media declare 'dark times' are on us
Being good has never been easy. And it's not getting easier — unlike many things in this age of mass technological empowerment. If it were, presumably, there would be more good and less evil — unless evil is more attractive?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 17, 2013
Cyber-kids get a break during Bon holidays
You didn't need prophetic powers, back in the 1980s when the personal computer was starting to show its potential, to foresee something like Internet addiction. It should have been obvious. It was, to science-fiction writer William Gibson. Reminiscing to Time magazine in 1995, he recalled his shock, as he walked by a video-game arcade sometime in the late '80s, at how absorbed the players were in their glowing screens. "I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids were," he said. "These kids clearly believed in the space the games projected. They develop a belief that there's some kind of actual space behind the screen."

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High-end tourism is becoming more about the kinds of experiences that Japan's lesser-known places can provide.
Can Japan lure the jet-set class off the beaten path?