Japanese police said they have arrested seven people suspected of running an illegal sex business that reportedly targeted tourists in Tokyo's busy red-light district. A record But some campaigners have raised concerns that the tourism influx could also be boosting the sex industry.
A Tokyo police spokesman told AFP on Wednesday that seven people, including a Brazilian national, had been arrested for running prostitution businesses under the guise of massage parlours for men in the central Kabukicho red-light district. One of those arrested, a year-old Japanese man named Kazuki Sudo, is believed to have headed the prostitution ring that ran from October and November last year, the spokesman said. They allegedly created an English-language website because 60 to 70 percent of their clientele were from abroad, including from Asian countries and North America, Japan's Mainichi daily reported.
The newspaper said that the businesses employed foreign touts and payments were accepted in different currencies. The Tokyo Shimbun newspaper said one year-old Malaysian man who used the group's services told police he wanted to "make memories" before returning home. A chilling twist emerged Friday in the death of Adan Manzano, a year-old TV reporter who traveled to cover the Super Bowl but mysteriously died in a hotel room.
A woman allegedly took down an American flag at a California park and replaced it with a Mexican flag before threatening authorities.
The man who shot and killed three UNLV professors kept dozens of dresses for sex workers in his apartment and received a startling text message in the aftermath of the mass shooting, according to the Las Vegas Metro police final report released Friday. Armed robbers took money at gunpoint from a family with a baby in south suburban Will County on Friday night. The explicit video that included a desire to harm migrants was shared on social media platforms and led to dire consequences, Scottsdale police say.
