{"id":556,"date":"2011-03-25T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T01:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2017-03-23T08:34:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T12:34:30","slug":"2011-revised-adult-entertainment-laws-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/2011-revised-adult-entertainment-laws-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Revised adult entertainment laws – JAPAN"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kabukicho Girls Reporter Miss Momo uncovered this “vital” information to those interested in the Japanese adult industry.<\/div>\n
By Sarah Noorbakhsh<\/a> | Published: 12 December 2010<\/abbr><\/div>\n
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On July 6 of this year, the Diet approved proposed revisions of Japanese law regarding \u201cadult entertainment\u201d establishments (\u98a8\u4fd7\u55b6\u696d\u7b49\u306e\u898f\u5236\u53ca\u3073\u696d\u52d9\u306e\u9069\u6b63\u5316\u7b49\u306b\u95a2\u3059\u308b\u6cd5\u5f8b). The laws are periodically revised as police attempt to keep up with and keep control over the country\u2019s ever-expanding adult entertainment venues. Information on the changes is slightly difficult to come upon, but this site<\/a> reportedly has the low-down on what will be different.<\/p>\n

The upcoming revisions will hit two types of businesses that have been identified as problems in recent years: gisou<\/em> love hotels and deai-kissa. Gisou love hotels are establishments registered as hotel or ryokan<\/em> that are effectively operating as love hotels. They include small spaces that don\u2019t resemble love hotels but can be rented for short-term trysts much like this unfortunate punter<\/a> did. This allows the gisou<\/em> love hotel to dodge regulations that bind normal love hotels to certain districts, allowing them to set up shop near schools, residential neighborhoods and other areas. Easiest way to beat the competition is\u00a0monopolise\u00a0an area they can\u2019t touch, right?<\/p>\n

Deai<\/a> kissa<\/em> have been covered in past articles<\/a> here, and are essentially \u201ccafes\u201d where people can go to select a stranger (if you\u2019re a man) or wait to be selected by a stranger (if you\u2019re a woman) for an activity the couple agrees upon in small meeting rooms inside the cafe. While the pretense is to meet someone for karaoke or a date, the business claims no responsibility about what happens outside of their premises, and they\u2019re often used as vehicles for prostitution. They\u2019ve most recently become an issue after a university student was murdered<\/a> by a man she met at a cafe earlier this year.<\/p>\n

While both gisou<\/em> love hotels and deai kissa<\/em> have trampled the grey line of adult entertainment laws, as of January 1, 2011, this will no longer be the case.<\/p>\n

The revisions have redefined what a love hotel is in order to re-evaluate businesses and close many of the loop holes gisou<\/em> love hotels have been taking advantage of. As of January 1, businesses that do one or more of the following may be classified as love hotels:<\/p>\n