Cabaret club worker arrested for soliciting under revised ordinance
Mainichi
A university student who tried to get a woman to become a cabaret club worker has been arrested, Metropolitan Police Department officials said.
Takeshi Sato, 22, was arrested for violating a Tokyo metropolitan ordinance banning people from creating a public nuisance. A revision to the metropolitan ordinance that established penalties for soliciting by cabaret clubs came into effect on Tuesday. It was the first time that police applied the revision to make an arrest.
Trouble over soliciting by cabaret clubs had repeatedly arisen in entertainment districts in Tokyo and drawn complaints, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly revised its ordinance last year.
This must have happened after midnight last night.