Talk:Prostitution in Japan

message: (Merge)Who put the tag for the merge of Tokyo Prostitution into Prostitution in Japan? Anyhow, I agree for the suggestion. The article of Tokyo Prostitution is too short. -218.110.137.137 (talk) 10:53, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would rather see the subject expanded. It is notable and other stuff exists at Prostitution in Nevada etc. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:09, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: *What the heck do these acronyms stand for?  Needs to be fixed. --Sgkay 07:21, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: fixedWillowx 09:26, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: GHQ/PTA

message: GHQ referes to the General HeadQuarters of SCAP (Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers) - MacArthur's Headquarters.
It is my understanding that the Anti-Prostitution law of 1956 was at least partly influanced by the advent of the Tokyo Olympics.
Furthermore, the law outlawed almost everything associated with prositution except for actual prostitution.  Furthermore, prostitution is strictly defined as genital-genital sex, as far as I understand.
Osakadave 19:31, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  GHQ and the law 

message: This really should be moved to "Sex industry in Japan", which is a better description of the funny but strictly speaking legal business in question.  Speak now or forever hold your peace. Jpatokal 12:59, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename to Sex industry in Japan

message: The article "Japanese Filipino" has a link to "Japayuki".  If you click on that, you are redirected to this article on "Prostitution in Japan".  That is both offensive and inaccurate.
As the article "Japanese Filipino" states, "Many are children of thousands of Japayukis who went to Japan mostly as entertainers, helpers, and maids."  Some of the Japayukis who were entertainers might have engaged in the sex business, but most were simply hostesses, talking, drinking, and occasionally having meals with male customers.  None of the Japayukis were were helpers or maids were at all involved in the sex business!
The redirection from "Japayuki" to "Prostitution in Japan" should be deleted due to its inaccuracy and offensive nature. JKaki00 09:20, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So instead of harping on about it, why not fix it?  You could remove the redirect at least, and better replace it with a meaningful article or stub.  Akihabara 12:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

text: America learned the same lesson with Prohibition back in the 1920s - that led to the rise of speakeasies. 204.52.215.107 (talk) 03:22, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove Redirection from "Japayuki" 

message: The article was changed to read: "The Anti-Prostitution Law of 1956 made practicing prostitution illegal, but not a crime. It did prohibit the following with penal regulations: soliciting for purposes of prostitution..."  This is non-sensical, at least in English, so I've reverted. Jpatokal 05:42, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Article 3 of Anti-Prostitution Law is "No person may either do prostitution or become the customer of it", and penalties of soliciting for purposes of prostitution, procuring a person for prostitution, ..., and the furnishing of funds for prostitution, are described in following articles. If the phrase "illegal, but not a crime" is non-sensical, how do we describe this? "(The law) did not make practicing prostitution illegal" is misguiding. --NobuoSakiyama 15:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, so you mean that the act of prostitution is illegal, there's just no punishment for it?  That's very strange. boggle Jpatokal 05:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes, it is Illegal. I am from Japan. But the sex is thought done under the agreement between man and woman. That is why people (customers) do NOT pay money at the entrance of the Soapland or the massage parlors. The establishment just receive "entrance fee" only. When you pay the girl after making love in the room, then you viorate the law. But who can know that.--218.110.137.137 (talk) 10:59, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

text: The status of prostitution in Japan would be de facto decriminalization for Japanese nationals while illegal for foreigners. There are reasons for such status after all.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noob2013 (talk • contribs) 12:16, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illegal but not a crime? 

message: In the section titled "War Era" is this passage: "Some of them received more than full general for inflation in area of risk."  Can anyone translate this into English?  It makes no sense as it stands. Bricology 18:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing syntax in "War Era" 

message: There are any number of clubs in the cities of Japan that provide a 'host' to female clients. The young men they employ basically flag down passing women on the street and try and convince them to "have fun" or "play" with them for a while, which consists of the girls/women ordering drinks (champagne for the most part) and talking, joking, playing drinking games. My understanding is that the females can also choose from a catalog of available guys as well. The women who frequent these shops are for the most part, from my understanding, sex-workers themselves of some kind and so the "relationship" doesn't necessarily end in sex (presumably the women see enough of that during their day jobs...) and they get the "respect" they are missing from entertaining salary men - as long as they are footing the bill for the drinks, I mean.
The author should mention these clubs at least.
31.6.18.231 (talk) 18:06, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: No mention of "Host Clubs" for women?

message: With WP:SS in mind, it seems to me that the Karayuki-san section would be a good candidate for being split off as a standalone detail article on that topic. This article would have a summary of that topic and would link that article as .
Barring objections, I may do that.
Discussion? Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:44, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Karayuki-san 

message: I've reverted this edit, which changed  "Buddhism is an old philosophy" to "Buddhism is an old religion", saying "Buddhism: Changed philosophy to religion. Buddhism is not a Philosophy it is a Religion, different branches of which may promote many different schools of philosophical thought though this was still an incorrect use of the word." See the Buddhism article. It seems to me that chaacterization as a philosophy is a better fit here, since the passage specifically concerns "secular Buddhists". Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:56, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
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