In a secret room of a rental room… A dispatch-type reflexology manager “made a 17-year-old high school girl do” an indecent act with a male customer.

On April 11, the Juvenile Development Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced the arrest of Ken Kano (40, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo), a suspect running a brothel, on suspicion of violating the Child Welfare Law (lewd acts) and the Entertainment Establishment Law (employment of juveniles).

According to the announcement, in November of last year, the suspect forced a male customer in his 30s to commit a lewd act on a 17-year-old high school girl, A, without confirming her age. Kano was running a reflexology store that dispatches girls to other customers.

Reflexology is an abbreviation of “reflexology,” and is not originally a sex industry. It is a service that uses massage and acupressure to stimulate the body and improve physical and mental conditioning. Recently, however, an increasing number of stores are having their female staff give hugs and sleep with them. In some cases, the staff members are forced to perform indecent acts as a “back-up option. It seems that Kano also had Ms. A perform sexual services for him.

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Mr. A is from the Tokai region. He came to Tokyo several times a month since May last year to attend live shows of men’s underground idol groups (hereinafter referred to as “men’s underground”), and started working at Kano’s store around November.

When Ms. A interviewed for a job, she presented a health insurance card borrowed from a 20-year-old friend. It did not have a picture of her face on it. The suspect said, ‘I am responsible for failing to verify her age,’ but he partially denied the crime, saying, ‘I didn’t realize that [Ms. A] was a 17-year-old child.

The illegal services at the reflexology parlor were discovered when Ms. A was arrested on a separate charge.

The police investigated the case and found out that Ms. A had been arrested for illegal services at a different incident. Ms. A worked at a brothel in order to go to a live performance of “Men Underground” and to buy expensive goods.

(Another reporter from the Social Affairs Department) Ms. A engaged in indecent acts with a male customer in his 30s at a rental room in Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo.

It seems that she was earning several tens of thousands of yen a time for her services in the secret room. Sometimes they dressed up as Santa Claus or blindfolded him. It is unknown whether the customers knew that Ms. A was underage.”

The suspect Kano is believed to have been running a brothel for about five years. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, he had sold at least 77 million yen.