Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly threatening a junior high school girl into prostitution, in violation of the child welfare law, investigative ...

The first trial for defendant Tano Kazuya, 21, in the Ikebukuro, Tokyo forced prostitution case opened. Early on, Japanese internet users glamorized Tano as the "most beautiful criminal," but this ...

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly threatening a junior high school girl into prostitution in violation of the child ...

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