20 million yen for a fake marriage, 200,000 yen for a virgin, 300,000 yen for having nails driven into your breasts – the “human rights price” in Kabukicho

Mai Watanabe, 26, aka “Riri-chan” who has been taking the Kabukicho area by storm since last year, has been sentenced to prison. She was accused of cheating several men out of a total of more than 150 million yen and also of aiding and abetting fraud by selling the know-how as a manual.

At the trial, it was also revealed that Riri has a husband who is a Vietnamese citizen. She said of her husband, “I remain a married woman, but I do not know where the other man lives, what he does, or his contact information,” and “I met a Japanese businessman at a deli service who told me, ‘If you marry a Vietnamese, I will give you money,’ and I said yes.

Seitaro (pseudonym, 34), a Kabukicho resident who is familiar with the buying and selling of family registers, reveals the reality of this situation.

When a foreigner marries a Japanese national and obtains a spouse visa, first of all, work restrictions are removed. Second, the requirements for naturalization and permanent residence visas are eased. I have seen several women who were asked by foreign men to marry for these purposes and receive compensation. The market rate for remuneration is 3 to 5 million yen, but in Riri-chan’s case, I heard that she received about 20 million yen.”

The reason Riri-chan went to such lengths to make money was because she wanted to pay tribute to the host in charge. In this town where death, money, and sex swirl, not only life but also other things may be light.

Behind-the-scenes work of nailing busts

In Kabukicho, such acts of selling oneself are not uncommon. Aika (pseudonym, 24), a hosiery fanatic, says she was once told about a “deal.

She said, “I get a lot of bad deals. They want me to make a baby with a rich guy. A few weeks ago, it was popular to shoot in a house with mirrors. There were several girls playing with one guy with their hands and mouths, and it was easy because there were several girls and they didn’t have to do the real work.

The requirements for the girls they were looking for were that they had to be well-dressed and have hair on the bottom. Some girls even wore fake hair to the interview. I got 10,000 yen if I got naked at the interview, and it seems I got 70,000 to 80,000 yen if I proceeded to filming. But then I heard a rumor that the person who filmed the illegal video had been arrested, and I remember being scared that I didn’t think it was that one …….”

This type of filming is called “video-related” and carries a high risk of being exposed. On the other hand, the risk is low and the payoff is good for those with special propensities.

One of my friends worked as an M-male in a hardcore SM brothel. She was meeting with customers who wanted to do things that were forbidden in the store, without going through the store. They would make them hit a nail in the bust, and for 300,000 yen or 500,000 yen, they could do whatever they wanted for a day. He laughed and said it was tough on the days when the enema went on and on. At the time, it was for the sake of the host who was in charge, so he was able to do it.

An extension of these “deals” was the overseas migrant work. In particular, in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Laos, there were many cases in which the migrants had their passports and cell phones taken away and were unable to return to their home countries after going there.

Although the number of such cases has decreased considerably in recent years, dangerous cases are still prevalent in Japan. Fumika (pseudonym, 20) tells us about her experience.

She says, “I was introduced by a friend who offered me 100,000 yen for a single play. The market price for a regular daddy’s play is usually between 30,000 and 50,000 yen,” she said. So it’s rare to get more than 100,000 yen for a one-player deal.

As soon as we gathered at the family restaurant for our appointment, a very handsome man took a picture of me with my ID. He explained to me that he was an illegal “aid worker” (a delicatessen that catches customers with the body of an aid worker) who catches customers on his own.

That same day, I was set up as a virgin and paid 200,000 yen to be with a client. Of course I wasn’t a virgin, but I pretended to be. I pretended to be a virgin, saying things like, “I used to play tennis, so I think my virginity film might have ruptured at that time. …… (sweat). It was easier because I didn’t have to work so hard to serve him.

The customer seemed to be a regular, and my friend who told me about it had done it with him, so afterwards we had a good time talking about how easy it was for him. When you play with more than one person or with the same girl, you hear all kinds of things behind the scenes like this (laughs).”

Letter from a detention center

This example was a case of a fake virgin, but when we asked people in Kabukicho about their first experiences, we heard episodes such as selling to a customer, pillows with a customer, or being an older pimp and getting the flow ……. All of them have had some kind of bad experience, yet they continue to cling to the land of Kabukicho with a certain amount of determination. What is this mysterious pull?

During the time this column was being written, I received a letter from a toyoko kid in jail, saying that since he was kicked out of his parents’ house when he was a teenager, he had been working day jobs and working as an entry-level host to make ends meet, and playing at the toyoko club.

He wrote, “I didn’t want to do anything, I just wanted to have fun with my friends,” and “I want to go back to Toyoko when I get out. After that, he sent letters to the detention center where he had been sent to and to prisons around the country, but they were all returned and he was never heard from again. I wonder if he is still on trial for extra crimes or if the charges were dropped. ……

If he is serving his sentence as he says he will, he will probably be released from prison in the next year or so. I only regret that I could not continue this series until his release from prison.

Thank you very much for reading this article for a long time. In the two years and nine months that I have been writing this series, I have been immersed in Kabukicho as a hosiery-crazed Keio University student, and my designated hosts have changed many times, but in the end, I never found my true love!

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From the November 1-8, 2024 issue of FRIDAY