The Seamy Side: Latest The Tokyo Reporter Update

Above, an Akihabara street.  Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Many countries have a seamy side to them.  Japan is no exception.

Here's the latest from The Tokyo Reporter:

With Halloween just around the corner the Tokyo Reporter Update starts with a ghoulish story in which an SM queen in Kyoto was extracting blood from customers:
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2013/10/04/kyoto-sm-queen-arrested-withdrawing-blood-customers/ 

A company is offering AV fans a chance to write their own scripts:
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2013/10/03/original-av-japan-made-order-porn-film-project-you-be-the-star 

A parlor in Akibabara offering "walking dates" has been busted for extortion:
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2013/10/02/akihabara-parlor-employing-school-girls-busted-extortion/ 

A Shibuya hooker club has been shut down:
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2013/10/01/tokyo-cops-shut-shibuya-hooker-club 

Speaking of Shibuya, a Ministry of Finance employee was arrested for molesting a teenage girl there:
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2013/09/30/finance-ministry-staff-member-arrested-molesting-teen-girl-shibuya-road/

A report in the Sankei Shimbun details a case of possible espionage at a hostess club in Kyoto:
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2013/10/01/chinese-hostess-club-kyoto-industrial-espionage-customers-leak-information/ 

And finally, Kanagawa cops busted a teen call-girl ring in Kawasaki:
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2013/10/02/teen-call-girl-ring-busted-kanagawa-cops/