Table 1-17 Trends in the Situation of Confirmed Adult Entertainment Business Act Offenses (2004-2008)

Year	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Category	Cases	Persons	Cases	Persons	Cases	Persons	Cases	Persons	Cases	Persons
Total	2,175	3,120	2,523	3,765	3,314	4,587	3,340	4,342	3,249	3,956
Operation in an Unauthorized Area	700	1,255	711	1,411	646	1,263	569	1,102	532
Employment of Minors	453	615	468	665	536	730	512	713	439
Solicitation	386	560	496	737	692	1,035	649	1,020	537
Operating without License	276	270	432	462	560	609	622	757	656
Unapproved Modifications to Building/Facilities or Game Equipment	114	175	113	172	119	206	69	107	49
Provision of Alcohol to Customers under the Age of 20	55	119	92	180	94	202	109	229	101
Other	191	126	211	138	667	542	810	414	935

Table 1-18 Trends in the Situation of Confirmed Indecency Crimes (2004-2008)

Year	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Category	Cases	Persons	Cases	Persons	Cases	Persons	Cases	Persons	Cases	Persons
Total	2,171	2,041	2,412	2,316	2,769	2,628	2,505	2,510	2,569	2,470
Indecent Exposure	1,669	1,451	1,741	1,502	1,999	1,715	1,718	1,618	1,782	1,613
Distribution of Obscene Materials	502	590	671	814	770	913	787	892	787	857

## (3) Police Efforts against Human Trafficking Offenses

## 1 ) Situation of Arrests in Human Trafficking Offenses

Recently, the prevention of the human trafficking has become an international issue. The police are working in cooperation with the Immigration Bureau and other relevant agencies to strengthen surprise crackdowns along the border and on corrupt managers and employers, provide immediate protection for victims of trafficking and shed light on the human trafficking situation in Japan and abroad. Moreover, the police are exchanging detailed information with private or other victim support organizations and the embassies of relevant countries.

A breakdown of the suspects of international trafficking cases cleared in 2008 revealed that 26 were managers and 7 were employers. Moreover, the nationalities of many were Thai (18 persons), or Philippine (7 persons), accounting for 69.4% of the total. The majority (24 persons) of the resident statuses of the victims were “short term,” (9 persons) and “illegal entry” (8 persons).

Table 1-19 Trends in the Number of Human Traffickers Arrested and Number of Victims (2004-2008)

Year	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Category
Number of Clearances (cases)	79	81	72	40	36
Number of Arrests (persons)	58	83	78	41	33
Broker	23	26	24	11	7
Number of Victims (persons)	77	117	58	43	36

## 2 ) Establishing a Call Service for Anonymous Tip-offs

A private organization consigned by the police has been operating the “Call Service for Anonymous Tip-offs” since 1 October 2007. This is a system that accepts anonymous information regarding certain crimes related to youth welfare $ ^{1} $ and human trafficking offenses and pays out a reward to those who give information leading to the clearance of a case. As of 30 September 2008, there were 206 reported tip-offs regarding crimes related to youth welfare, and 62 related to human trafficking offenses. Of these, 7 reports were successful in leading to the solving of the case.

Note 1: Welfare crimes do not include some that are stipulated in the “Act on Preventing Minors from Smoking” and “Act on Preventing Minors from Drinking” (only applies to juvenile crime victims) but include abduction and kidnap of minors.

## (4) Appropriate Control of Firearms and Measures for Dangerous Objects

1) Strengthening of Firearms Regulations and Sharp Objects Regulations

As of the end of 2008, the number of rifles and