Police Rehabilitation is Like a Reunion… “Tohyoko Kids” Talked about the Terrifying “Kabukicho Situation of the Youth”.

Many problems occurred in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, a place where many young people gather, known as Toyoko.

Under such circumstances, the government has intensified patrols in earnest, and although many minors were taken into custody and prevented from entering the plaza, the result was that they ended up just changing their location to the immediate vicinity.

The environment surrounding Kabukicho has changed dramatically since the beginning of this year, but what do the people who gather in Toyoko feel and think?

There are a wide variety of people in Toyoko, some underage kids, and some homeless people who sleep on the street on cardboard boxes and bring their own futons.

Despite the disorderly nature of the place, each person has a different feeling toward Touhyoko. We interviewed Mr. Yukinyan, a creator who distributes video content in Toyoko, about the current situation in Toyoko.

I am aware that I am a Toyoko kid myself. I don’t say it to other people because it’s gross to say it to myself. It doesn’t change much when the police start coming. New kids come here after seeing our Instagram and TikTok, so there is a lot of turnover among the Toyoko Kids.

Yukinyan is aware that she herself is a Toyoko kid, but she still goes to Toyoko. She says that the cycle at Toyoko is quite fast. Even if detained by a crackdown, they are out of jail in 10 to 20 days, so minors with nowhere else to go have no choice but to come here.

The environment has changed, but I feel what we are doing has not. “The environment has changed, but I feel that what they are doing has not changed. I still hear stories about how they earn 100,000 yen a day by doing papa activities, or about minors engaging in aid dating. The girl from Omiya was in sixth grade. To be honest, the police are useless.