<figure id="attachment_449983" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-449983" style="width: 1280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="bd0eccc7"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/12/bc81a53aff654a2c7192f990d90d7cd6.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-449983" class="wp-caption-text">Shiori, dispatched by a &#8220;delivery-type&#8221; JK reflexology service, says she just turned 18 (from the December 18, &#8217;15 issue).</figcaption></figure>
<p> What did &#8220;FRIDAY&#8221; report 10, 20, or 30 years ago? In &#8220;Playback Friday,&#8221; we revisit the topics that were hot at the time. This time, we will introduce &#8220;JK Business: Undercover shots of a traveling massage and a new type of tour club,&#8221; which appeared in the December 18, 2003 issue 10 years ago.</p>
<p> In September 2003, a manager was arrested for violating the Entertainment Establishment Law by operating an unlicensed &#8220;JK Observation Club&#8221; in Akihabara (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), where women in school uniforms and school swimsuits were posed for view through a magic mirror.</p>
<p> At the time, JK Observation Clubs were in full swing, offering extreme services based on the policy that &#8220;anything is OK as long as the girls are over 18 years of age and there is no nudity. The police, on the other hand, argued that the JK tour clubs should be notified under the Entertainment Establishments Law because they were considered &#8220;show business.</p>
<p> The JK clubs, however, were even more clever in exploiting loopholes in the law, and came up with new business ideas of their own (the descriptions in parentheses are taken from past articles; ages are current at the time).</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent"> Sneaking into a store that was created after a &#8220;tour store&#8221; was busted.</span></h3>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The owner of the shop said, &#8220;Please choose a girl in a private room through a mirror from the men&#8217;s room. After that, you can get a reflexology service starting at 2,000 yen for 10 minutes.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> A common building in a busy downtown area of Ikebukuro (Toshima Ward), Tokyo. The male clerk at &#8220;N,&#8221; which this magazine infiltrated, explained the system to us.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> We were shown into a room about three tatami mats in size, the walls of which were covered with magic mirrors. In the past, in clubs for tours, several women would relax in a large room, and the male customers would &#8220;watch&#8221; them from a private room through the mirror. This club, however, is the opposite. Customers in the large room appoint one of the uniformed girls waiting in the private room on the other side of the mirror. The girls do not show their underwear. Service is provided only after moving to a private room.</span></p>
<p> In other words, observing a woman through a magic mirror is a construction of <span class="strongInContent">&#8220;selecting a woman to give a massage</span>. The reason it is illegal is that the shop charges money for allowing the customer to observe, and there is no problem if the customer receives the massage fee after the appointment. What the store was offering was a private room for relaxation. At that time, such stores were opening one after another. So, what happens after you enter the private room?</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> After leaving the large room, I went around to the back and entered a private room about one tatami mat where a uniformed girl was waiting for me.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The girl in school uniform was waiting for me. Thanks for the nomination.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> With these words, she closes the curtains and makes the private room invisible from the large room.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Look, I&#8217;m wearing sexy pants today. You can make me feel even better if you give me an option.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Yuka had already given me a simple hand and foot massage, but now she was offering me options such as hugging and sleeping with her. The menu also listed play using adult toys, such as the &#8220;electric foot massage&#8221; (3,000 yen).</span></p>
<p> At other clubs, customers were asked to meet one-on-one with a girl in a private room separated by a bath towel, where they could watch her stretch out in her school uniform on top of the partitioned towel while she took care of her own body.</p>
<p> The &#8220;observation club&#8221; survived in this form.</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">A Rapid Increase in &#8220;Delivery&#8221; Type</span></h3>
<p> The number of JK-refreshment services that have shifted from &#8220;storefront&#8221; type to &#8220;delivery&#8221; type has also increased rapidly. One such example is &#8220;S,&#8221; a JK reflexology service in Shinjuku, Tokyo, which this magazine visited undercover. 60-minute sessions cost 10,000 yen, and women in school uniforms are dispatched to a customer&#8217;s home or love hotel. The women are dispatched to a home or love hotel for 10,000 yen for 60 minutes, where they perform an oil massage in a closed room with the male customer wearing only his underwear.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Do you feel good?</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Shiori (a pseudonym), who says she just turned 18 after dropping out of high school, carefully massages the reporter, who lies on her back in her school uniform. She then leaned in close and whispered to the reporter.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I can give you a back massage, too. It&#8217;s 10,000 yen for a hand job, and 30,000 yen for the whole thing.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Shiori spoke in a familiar tone. She is making a lot of money every time with this method.</span></p>
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<p> On the &#8220;S&#8221; website, there is a blog of a girl who is a member of the club. Some of the girls were appealing to the underage crowd (high school girls under the age of 18), saying <span class="strongInContent">things like, &#8220;I&#8217;m a JK,&#8221; or &#8220;I wear my own school uniform after school.</span> According to the source, there were also cases where high school girls were mixed in with the girls at the dispatch-type stores, which are difficult to detect.</p>
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<h3><span class="strongInContent">In reality, it is an &#8220;illegal adult entertainment business.</span></h3>
<p> The JK business began in the mid-1900s with the birth of &#8220;JK Refre&#8221; under the guise that it was not a sex store or entertainment restaurant and that those under the age of 18 could work there. Although not a brothel, the reality of the business was that it was a &#8220;prostitution business&#8221; and was considered a breeding ground for child prostitution and other forms of delinquency, which led to a number of stores being busted.</p>
<p> The stores have continued to play weasel games with the police by changing their business model into various forms, such as &#8220;JK photo sessions,&#8221; &#8220;JK observation stores,&#8221; and &#8220;JK communes. The store mentioned in the article is one example.</p>
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<p> However, in July 2005, following Aichi Prefecture, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government enacted an &#8220;Ordinance on Regulation of Specified Heterosexual Entertainment Businesses,&#8221; which placed JK businesses under the category of &#8220;specified heterosexual entertainment businesses&#8221; and completely banned anyone under the age of 18 from working in them. The ordinances were successively enforced in all prefectures, and the &#8220;real JK&#8221; business was destroyed.</p>
<p> The reason for this was that Japan&#8217;s JK business was strongly criticized by foreign countries as a breeding ground for child prostitution and child pornography, and the government had no choice but to take action.</p>
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<p> According to the National Police Agency, as of the end of December 2012, there were 91 JK business establishments nationwide, and some have pointed out that the reality of the business has become increasingly similar to that of adult entertainment since only those over the age of 18 are allowed to work there. In addition, the police continue to sound the alarm that there are still cases of high school girls working there.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_449985" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-449985" style="width: 1280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="e3ef37e6"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/12/3a07b082a31b4371cd6b6dd4c32d4481.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-449985" class="wp-caption-text"> We nominated Yuka at &#8220;N&#8221; and entered a private room. With the curtains closed so that the private room was not visible from the large room, she went to &#8230;&#8230; (from the December 18, &#8217;15 issue).</figcaption></figure>
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 In this issue of Playback, we take a look back at what this magazine was reporting 10, 20, and 30 years ago. This time, we look back at the year 2003. In this issue, we look back at the JK business, which continues to be exposed by the law, and how it is trying to survive by any means possible.

Playback &#8217;15] &#8220;Backdoor&#8221; sex orgies include a real sex scene&#8230; The &#8220;commercial spirit&#8221; of the JK business that has remained unbroken no matter how many times it has been exposed.

Playback ’15] “Backdoor” sex orgies include a real sex scene… The “commercial spirit” of the JK business that has remained unbroken no matter how many times it has been exposed.

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