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"He told me he was a photographer for adult magazines. He said he wanted to take some beautiful portraits and needed my help. He told me he'd pay me properly for it. I wasn't too sure, but he said 'You wanna be a model, don't you? You should try lots of things while you're still young,' so I went along with it," an 18-year-old woman tells Shukan Bunshun (10/18).
She was talking about her experiences with Takayuki Hosoda, a 54-year-old elementary school vice principal arrested earlier this month for breaking the law banning child pornography.
Hosoda is accused of luring hundreds of underage girls before his camera and then selling the pictures to child cheesecake magazines for a premium price.
Hosoda apparently had all the latest camera equipment. His typical photo shoot involved going to pick up the girl he'd seduced into posing for him and then taking her straight to a love hotel.
"We first took photos having sex together, then he got me to pose. He gave me lots of instructions like 'Smile' or 'Give a peace sign.' He was kind, so I didn't have any trouble with doing what he asked," the teen says. "That is, until we went into the bath and he asked me to drink my own pee, which I refused to do. After we'd finished, he gave me the 30,000 yen he'd promised and we went home."
Hosoda is accused of taking obscene photos of over 600 underage girls. He also allegedly sent the photos into magazines for the past 16 years, pocketing a handy 18 million yen in the process. The magazines certainly welcomed him.
"He was one of the pioneers of the technique called hamedori, which is taking photos of sex as it happens," an editor of one of the magazines tells Shukan Bunshun. "He'd always send in photos of these beautiful young girls as good-looking as pop idols, so there were people on the production side who were very grateful for his presence."
Hosoda is also purported to have advised readers on how to pick up teenage women, telling them such pearls of wisdom as "look good, speak well and be kind."
Shukan Bunshun notes that Hosoda lured many of his alleged victims from an "encounter cafe" in the Sapporo entertainment district of Susukino.
At first glance, the cafe looks no different to the average manga cafe, but the reality couldn't be further from that. Inside there is a two-way mirror. Men and women have different entrances and the guys can peer through the mirror to see all the women who come in and choose the one's they would like to get to know better. Men pay a 5,000 yen fee to become a member of the cafe and 1,000 yen for every 10 minutes they want to talk with a woman they have selected from the other side of the looking glass. If their chat goes well, the newly minted couple are free to leave the club and do as they like. Entrances to women's waiting rooms are divided between those over 18 and the underaged.
"I'm sure that detail is a service the cafe provides to make sure nobody gets arrested for breaking the ordinance outlawing sex with the underaged," a reporter for a national daily tells Shukan Bunshun with a laugh. "Women can become members of the club for free. They also get free food and drinks, so lots of schoolgirls with time on their hands go in there. Hokkaido Prefectural Police have been on their guard about the joint, considering it to be a place that encourages teenage prostitution. But the cafe is not subjected to the constraints of the adult entertainment law, so the reality is there's nothing the cops can do about what goes on there." (By Ryann Connell)