- Title: JAPAN: LIGHTS OUT AT MIDNIGHT UNDER TOUGHER CONTROLS ON SEX INDUSTRY.
- Date: 14th February 1985
- Summary: 1. GVs & SVs Street scenes with bars, strip joints etc. (13 SHOTS) 0.23 2. GV Men outside club. 0.27 3. GVs Street scenes with people walking through red light district. (2 SHOTS) 0.34 4. CU & GVs Police officers in street (3 SHOTS) 0.48 5. GV & SVs Neon Lights outside Clubs. (3 SHOTS) 0.54 6. SV & GV TRACKING SHOT People walking through red light district. 1.31 In
- Embargoed: 1st March 1985 12:00
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- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVAAXDJ55G71GUN6MUT9HBZ9JXN6
- Story Text: TOKYO, JAPAN
Gaudy neon signs, explicit displays and the bright lights of the Tokyo "red light" district are likely to go out at midnight every night from this week under new regulations of tighten up on Japan's thriving sex industry. Much of the profits of the sex business have found themselves their way to the Yakuzas -- or organised crime syndicates. In Tokyo's Kabuki-cho there are more than 400 bars, strip joints, massage parlours, peep shows and porno shops to appeal to passers by and after hours office gatherings. As of this week, in addition to the early closing authorities will have powers to restrict sex shops to special areas. There will also be tighter controls on the presence of minors and police will have wider powers to investigate. Police have linked a rise in juvenile delinquency to sex crimes and the game parlour atmosphere of areas like Kabuki-cho. Japan is traditionally officially taken a liberal attitude to night-time pleasures, prostitution was not banned until 1958.
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