(upbeat music) McDonald’s.
We talked about
McDonald’s and the scalping
issue they had when
they had this release.
It was Pokemon stuff.
And then they had one piece thing.
They were gonna do put
that in the happy meals.
And then that got delayed.
And then like, okay, we’re
gonna try to take a stance.
We’re gonna try to fix this.
And the plan is better.
But effective, we’re
actually gonna wait and see.
And that’s kind of what
McDonald’s is doing.
They’re actually testing like, “Will
this be effective with this be helpful?
” They have the Sanrio 20th anniversary
happy meal set coming out soon.
And they’ve decided to try to
employ some anti scalper rules.
So if you go to McDonald’s, you want it.
It’s going to be limited
to in-person purchases.
So you’ll only be able to buy it if you
go to a McDonald’s and actually buy it.
Drive-throughs okay, in-person’s okay.
They have like a kiosk now.
So you don’t actually talk
to a staff member of that.
So okay.
But there will be no
mobile apps or deliveries.
And it’ll be restricted via UberEAT.
So if I want to order UberEATs, I can
probably order only one or two happy meals.
I can’t order like 10 or 20 and
have those delivered to my house.
The maximum will be
three happy meals at a time.
So that means if I have
four kids and those four kids
want happy meals, one gets
a thank you and goodbye.
And that’s because you don’t get a happy
meal because you don’t deserve to be happy
because scalpers have
made the world a worse place.
So these restrictions were only going
to be applied for the first of four days.
And then the next week it seems like
they’re going to do another five days.
So I think what McDonald’s
is actually trying to do
is they’re trying to test
to see if this actually
helps or hinders or
does anything at all.
If it doesn’t do anything at all, they’ll
probably come up with a different strategy.
If it does work, they’re going to probably
introduce this kind of system all across.
Because the scalpers
really ruined it the last time.
This doesn’t stop me from
going to the McDonald’s,
ordering three happy
meals and then getting my
happy meals and then
going to the end of the line
and just coming in again
or just going to different
like two or three restaurants
and sort of circulating
and getting as many
as I can within a day.
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In Japan, there’s a party.
It was called the anti NHK party.
And they have this thing NHK is the
National Broadcast Incorporation of Japan.
And NHK is part of the licensing fee.
So if you know in the UK
you have to pay every month
and just be able to have
a receiver for television.
It’s the same in Japan,
you’re actually supposed to pay,
I think it’s 1,000 to 2,000
a month depending on
like your situation, I’m not
sure how they calculate that.
But if you receive terrestrial television,
you’re supposed to pay this fee.
Now a lot of people don’t, a
lot of people think it’s unfair.
They’re like, I don’t like
NHK, I don’t like their politics.
I don’t think it’s, I get
any value for the money.
Their documentaries are garbage.
I’m not a big fan of NHK.
Why do I have to pay this
fee for a thing I don’t want?
I don’t watch television.
So I feel like I shouldn’t
have to pay for it anymore.
My kids, my family, they
don’t watch television in Japan.
Why are we paying this
fee for a thing we don’t use?
We have a television in the house.
At this point, I would be
willing to get rid of the television.
I don’t think anyone
does use the television.
They’ve tried to
redefine what television is.
So if you have any sort
of internet connection,
any sort of any other thing, you should be
paying this fee because you live in Japan.
I have always disagreed with it.
I have no problem with it being voluntary.
If I actually wanted any of the
viewing, I would love it if they
just took NHK off my TV and
then I didn’t have to pay this fee.
But this is the only way
NHK can make any money.
So it’s the only way they can survive.
So they really, really want people to pay.
They had this guy set up a political party.
This political party was basically saying,
we’re going to do everything we can to
get into government and then stop NHK fees.
The NHK fees are unfair.
We shouldn’t have to pay them
as citizens, but it’s not right.
Then he said, you
shouldn’t have to pay them.
But legally, you shouldn’t
have to pay them.
And a lot of people listen to this.
And he actually started
getting some political clout
because he was saying things that
people liked, I don’t want to pay it.
This is the thing I don’t like paying.
You shouldn’t have to pay it.
And people were like, hey, I’m listening.
But then he started saying some
stuff that wasn’t necessarily true.
He said, look, if you get sued by NHK,
and you become a member
of the anti-Anage K party,
we will pay your legal fees
and fight the suit for you.
Now, I’ve heard that somewhere else.
And the other place I
heard it was in America
when Donald Trump said, if
you say things that support me,
that other people don’t like, and you get
sued or whatever, I’ll pay your legal fees.
Now, if I remember correctly,
Donald Trump didn’t pay the legal fees
and I think you can guess what’s
coming in this story right now.
Seems like history repeats itself.
But what he did do is
come up with a scheme.
And schemes appeal to
people because schemes
make it feel like you’re
doing something smart.
He said, we’re going to
set up a proxy system.
So what happens is when the
NHK guy comes to your house,
you say, yes, I will sign the
contract, but I don’t put my address.
I put the address of a lawyer that sort of
is connected to the NHK anti NHK party.
And then my bills will go to that lawyer
and then he’ll just deny those bills.
Well, you can guess
that system seems really
smart ’cause you’ve
completely side-step.
I’ve never gotten a bill.
Why should I have to pay
a bill I’ve never gotten?
The bills go to these
lawyers and the lawyers
are like, well, I’m
not paying this bill.
This bill isn’t for me.
Well, now you can see that NHK
is much as I might not like them.
This system isn’t going to hold
up and under any sort of scrutiny.
So what happens next is the NHK
starts to disallow the proxy system.
They say, we’re not
going to allow you to put in
a dress that isn’t the
one you’re at right now.
We’re not going to
allow you to do this thing.
And the problem is every one of those bills
that’s been going to the
lawyer that you have not
been paying, that debt
doesn’t get disappeared.
It doesn’t go away.
You can’t fight it in court.
So then some people
actually got sued by NHK
and they lost, which means they have
to pay a much bigger bill all of a sudden
that they’re not ready
for and that’s problematic
because now instead
of paying 1,000 yen a
month, I have to pay
60,000 yen or 100,000 yen.
And maybe I don’t have that much money.
So now I have to pay back interest in
arrears and penalties and things like that.
And that’s all problematic.
In 2024, there was another lawsuit
of an online political activist
who said like he thinks
that the NHK, the anti NHK
party, is doing suspicious stuff.
So he starts suing him
for the proxy system.
Sews the leader of the party.
I’m going to have to put Dave down.
Because what he saw is when
you signed up for this proxy system
to try to scam the government
and scam the NHK system
was that you were actually
giving consent for them to use a lot
of your information, which
included selling your information
or using it in ways that
maybe you didn’t intend.
So this is problematic.
So he got sued for that.
And then his position, the
leader of the anti NHK party,
changed significantly saying that
you do have to pay the NHK fee.
It is a legal requirement.
So what we should do now is
we should all get rid of our TV.
So if you don’t like it, if you don’t like
the NHK fee, get rid of your television.
Now consumer and fares is
targeting an anti NHK party.
And it seems like the party is in
the process of collapsing completely.
But again, like I said, I don’t know if
getting rid of your TV is actually enough.
Because they say your
smartphone can pick up the signal,
the navigation system in
your car can pick up the signal,
computers that are connected to
the internet, the internet can pick it up.
So I don’t know how
that actually works, which
makes it problematic for
it actually being successful.
So this is another thing
that maybe will come
out in the legal system
in the near future.
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Talking about political parties, Sensato,
the right wing sort of mega
version of a party in Japan.
They have been starting to take all
the sort of points from the mega script.
And in Okinawa, there is a Sensato
person who got into some power.
They got voted in.
And they decided to make
some comments and statements.
And you’re never going to
guess which ones they make,
because you could probably
guess which ones they make.
They said that transgender identities are
contagious during a city council meeting.
And so the young people, if they’re
taught about LGBTQ issues in school,
that will sort of open
them up to this infection,
this disease that is
the transgender thing.
The irony is, if it is infectious, they
wouldn’t get the vaccination for it.
So if there was a vaccination for this
thing, they would be anti-vaccination.
So they wouldn’t get the vaccination
for the other thing they dislike.
And this is sort of the problem is that
because they’re sort of anti-everything.
I’m anti-vaccination.
I’m anti-this.
I’m anti-that, which
means if there’s something
that could actually help me
with one of the things I like,
I might have to do one of the other things
I don’t like to actually get rid of it.
That doesn’t matter.
They’re saying that kids who
show any sort of LGBTQ tendencies
should be referred to as psychologists
to get that deep trauma taken care of
instead of actually anything that’s
sort of affirming to their life, which is–
I mean, again, it’s
sort of just the script.
It’s what you would expect from someone
who holds position in a party like this.
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Talk about scams a lot.
One of the scams that came out recently
was a lady who thought she
was talking to an astronaut
who said he was low on
oxygen, and they were in love.
And then he was like, send
me money, and she didn’t.
She got scammed, but I
felt really bad about that.
But that kind of scam is actually– astronaut
has not the first time I’ve heard that.
As a scam, we’ve actually heard multiple.
I’m talking to someone
on the international
space decision scams,
and they need money.
One guy said, I needed money for a
return trip, which is absolutely insane.
There’s a new scam in
Japan, and this actually, again,
being new, it’s actually worth talking about
so that people are aware of what it is.
So what they’re trying to do is
set up old people with smartphones
that they have installed
apps on, and those apps,
they can then access any other
information they put into the phone.
So a fake police officer
called a woman in her
70s, and he said, you
are a suspect in fraud.
So what I want you to do
is go buy this very specific
smartphone, and I’m
assuming from a specific seller.
She didn’t buy one.
She was like, nah, I’m
not buying a smartphone.
If you’re the cops, you
can come and try to
deal with me properly,
and that’ll be fine.
And I thought, okay, well,
that would be the end of it.
But then a smartphone
showed up at her house.
It was delivered to her house.
So whether you actually
buy the smartphone
or not is irrelevant,
which is interesting.
So they’re just going to
send you a smartphone,
and if you start
using that smartphone,
you’re then immediately connected to
the person who is the fake police officer.
And that fake police officer
starts giving you advice.
Now, she got the phone.
She started actually answering the message
and started interacting
with the fake police officer,
the scammer, and that’s
when it became problematic.
So the scammer told her
she could buy gold via an app.
And so she ended up spending
over 5 million yen and losing 1.
5 kilograms of gold, which actually
is equivalent to 26 million yen.
So that is sort of
problematic because the family
that she’s with might just
see her using her phone,
and they don’t know what
she’s doing on the phone.
And I’m sure that phone
has sort of the apps
actually include like if
she puts in her credit
card, they get the
credit card information.
And now they’ve actually
spent all her money.
And I guess it needs to be
said, if a magic free smartphone
shows up at your house,
you probably shouldn’t use it.
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Thanks for talking scams.
Naughty co, don’t say, is
an astrologer for companies.
And she has been arrested for,
and this is where I kind of
was thinking we could do a quiz.
What do you think she was arrested for?
The quiz would actually be too easy.
She was arrested for fraud.
Because she’s an astrologer,
I’m already a bit suspicious already.
I don’t believe, if you’ve listened to an
interview, Japan for any amount of time,
you know I don’t believe
any of these sort of things.
That’s the first problem.
Her deal was she would meet
with you, sort of wine and dine you.
And then she would convince
you that if she put crystals
at the foundation of your building,
so let’s say I want a business
or I own an office building, or I
own a building with other people in it,
in an apartment building,
she convinces me to spend a
certain amount of money to
put crystals in the foundation.
And that will improve the
Feng Shui of the building.
And that improvement will then
bring more money for me into my life.
And a lot of people went for it.
Now she was doing what is
essentially a Ponzi scheme.
‘Cause she was saying
you invest 10 million yen.
And you’ll get back your 10 million yen
plus five or 10% or something like that.
And she was getting money from an investor
and then doing sort of
payouts to other people.
And she was using that
money she was getting
from investors to wine
and dine other people
to get more investors so
she would get more input.
And then she was paying out some of
the originals, but some people were like,
it’s getting pretty
hard to actually get my
money out, which makes
me a little suspicious.
And that’s when it started
to catch up with her.
Ponzi schemes are
convincing because when you
get your first payout,
you actually get money.
So that’s very convincing.
So then you’re more
willing to put more money
into it and then get
more money out later.
But then it suddenly gets
difficult to get your money out.
I actually got caught
in one of these months.
And it was very, very hard to
convince me that I’d been scammed.
I was lucky that I hadn’t put in a
huge amount of some the first time.
And so I got my first payout and then
I put in more money this second time,
but I’m not rich enough to actually
put in enough money to actually lose.
One of the things they say about
investing is don’t invest money.
You’re not willing to
lose, which is actually true.
‘Cause I lost that money
and I never got it back.
I did manage to shut down his website
and actually like cause him some problems,
the scammer, but it was a
big group overseas who knows.
They called me years later,
like one or two years later
and started talking about how I could get
all my money back maybe even plus interest.
And I really quickly realized like
it’s a call center and it’s a huge scam.
And she was supposed to
be calling on part of the British
government, didn’t have a British
accent and all this other stuff.
It was just very suspicious.
And then I got them shut down too.
But that just meant they needed to get a
new phone number and new website and stuff.
Naughty code, don’t
say, then say, then say,
Naughty code, then say,
actually managed to get
2 billion yen from 70
people now, 2 billion yen.
If you had gotten to 1 billion yen,
you now have enough money to live.
You should have taken that money and run.
That’s what a lot of people were in
the comments of this story we’re saying.
And I actually agree.
This is the problem with criminals.
They get something and
it’s going and it’s going well.
They’re like, I’m gonna keep
going and going and going.
And then the money gets so big and
you have so many people you’ve scammed.
Someone’s gonna catch on.
And then that’s actually
when your house of cards
is gonna collapse because
you make it too big.
You have to set a number in your head.
This is the same with gambling.
You set a number in your head.
And if I achieve that number, I stop.
And the problem is when
you start making money,
making money, making money, people are
like, well, there’s no upper limit here.
I could make all the money in the world.
But that just means sooner or later,
you’re gonna bring too much attention
to yourself and you’re gonna get caught.
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I don’t know if I would
call this a scam per se,
but it sort of falls into the same category,
which is why I’m putting it together.
There’s a guy who goes to a hostess club
and he pays the extra fee to
see the same hostess every time.
And that’s definitely saying to the hostess
that this guy has, he’s attracted to me.
Maybe he has feelings for me, but that makes
you, again, a target for being scammed.
Now this wasn’t a scam like
the ones we’ve just talked about.
This is a way more basic scam.
She says, hey, I really like a night
view at this one very specific place.
Let’s go to that one
specific place together.
And that’s like, hey, man, that’s a date.
She wants to see me outside the club, which
means she’s not in this for the money.
She’s in this ’cause she loves me.
Well, the problem is what
she’s actually trying to get you
is to go to a remote location
and at that remote location,
what happened was there were
three Yakuza waiting for them both.
They took him out of the car
and they started beating him.
He was punched in the face
and in the stomach many times.
And then he was stabbed
multiple times with an all AWL,
which is, if I’m correct,
this is what bricklayer’s use.
He’s not fighting off three
Yakuza who are there ready for him.
And he’s ready to have a good time.
He’s going to talk to this
girl that he’s attracted to.
He’s maybe going to try to make out whether
who knows where this is going to end up.
And then three Yakuza are
suddenly on him beating him up.
He gets stuffed in the trunk of
a car, taken to a second location.
They pull him out and beat him up again.
They break his teeth
and do some other stuff.
They manage to take a
smartphone and 30,000 yen,
which for four people being
involved, that is not much of a payoff.
And that’s actually the
problem because they
weren’t targeting him
because he was rich.
They were targeting
him because he was easy,
but he was easy probably because he spent
all his money on this one hostess already.
The hostess should have
just kept stringing him
along and taking his
money essentially legally
versus taking him out and
then sort of beating him up.
And then now they got like a pay
day, but that pay day is garbage.
I mean, honestly, it
wasn’t worth like 30,000 yen
divided amongst four people, four
people that are initially involved.
That’s not even 10,000 yen each and
that’s not even like a really nice meal.
September 4th, the arrest were made.
Six people were arrested.
So there was the hostess,
the three Yakuza and probably
staff or someone else and
people other tangentially involved.
It took him a month to actually
heal from getting beat up so badly.
And I feel really bad for the guy.
He was a painter, he was working on us.
He was attracted to this woman.
And what happens, she
took advantage of him.
I think the problem is the hostess system.
It’s one of those systems designed
to make you feel like something.
This happens with streamers and
stuff where like it’s a really hot girl
and a guy donates money and he feels
that he feels a meta connection to someone.
It’s a connection that he
thinks is real, it isn’t real.
It’s the same thing.
The hostess being right
next to you in real life
would make it feel
stronger, but it’s still not real.
‘Cause she’s getting paid to make you think
that she likes you so that you’ll
come back and spend more money.
She gets paid by how
much you spend at the club.
She gets paid by you coming back
again and again and being a regular.
So that’s one of the
things that I think is,
it’s predatory and I
actually think it should be
not necessarily legal,
but that’s just my opinion
and no one in Japan
cares about my opinion.
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Back in June 14th, police officer in
her twenties was in a police station.
Let’s go to the toilet.
Pretty natural thing, you
have to go to the toilet.
She goes to the toilet.
She goes to the toilet
and she watches her hands.
They could drop.
You washed your hands
after going to the toilet.
The problem is at some point
she decided to take off or belt.
Her belt is connected to her holster.
Her holster has her gun in it.
She put that down next
to the sink, washed her
hands and then got up
and just walked away.
So five minutes after the police person
washes their hands and leaves the toilet.
Someone else comes into the same toilet
and then notices, hey, there’s a gun
ammunition and a belt sitting there.
That’s pretty bad thing to have happen.
Maybe I should report that.
Now they’re in a police station.
So this is safer than
somewhere out in public,
but the thing is, this exact same
story has happened multiple years.
So I’ve done this story on Ninja Ninja Pen.
At least twice.
One was a police
officer left their gun in a
convenience store and one
was a gun and a plastic bag,
like a Ziploc bag of
ammunition was left in a toilet.
So this is not the first time this has
happened, as freaky as it actually might be.
Five minutes later, someone comes
in and then actually goes to the staff
of the police station and they’re in and
says, Hey, there’s a gun in the bathroom.
Maybe you guys should take care of that.
This was a civilian.
Now they work for the police
station, but they’re not a police officer.
So there’s like, you can see like,
if this place is open to the public
and you left your gun in
this place, that’s problematic.
I don’t know, it does go
to the safety of Japan.
Like you are able to
actually leave your gun
somewhere and it
doesn’t become a problem.
Someone just turns it in.
Because when this story was sent to me,
so one of the people
sent it to me on Discord,
I read the story, without
even finishing this story,
I’m like, someone turned in that gun and
there was actually nothing wrong with it.
The police officer, of
course, did get reprimanded,
did get in trouble and they’re
gonna like, we’re gonna do
training and stuff like that
in the again of the future.
But let’s be honest, Japan is such a
safe country, with such nice people in it.
Losing your gun isn’t a big issue.
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Something of a problem in Japan.
Japan is one of those countries
where people get lifetime employment.
That’s a really common thing.
So it means they do a lot less job
hopping than other countries like America,
where I think in America,
if you stay at a company
for five years, people start asking
like, do you have any ambition?
Are you going to move
on that kind of thing?
Japan, it’s way more normal for people
to stay at companies for
years and years and years.
They have lifetime employment
contracts, they’ll sort of
take care of you if you stay
at the company for a long time.
That system’s still in place.
Now, modernization means
that people are changing
jobs more often, it’s
becoming more of a problem
because people don’t
know how to deal with it.
But what’s actually
happening now is a story
called revenge quitting,
revenge quitting.
So what does this actually mean?
This is like I quit my job
and I delete all the data
I make on my computer when leaving,
just to cause problems to my coworkers.
This could be sending
us sarcastic farewell email.
So I send an email to
everyone in the company
and I started like, oh, it was
so wonderful to work with you.
I actually, I guess tone is
something that’s hard to come across.
But you can tell sarcasm one it’s there,
like talking about some
of the other employees
and how they helped you
when everyone knows they didn’t.
Quitting out without doing
any of the proper handover stuff.
So not helping the person
who’s going to take over my job
or the people who are going to
pick up the work when I leave.
Leaving purposely during
the most busy season.
So most companies, they’re busy.
I let’s say it’s a travel company
and you’re going to be busy
during the two weeks summer
vacation time or leading up to that.
And then you quit at that time on purpose
just to cause more trouble
for the other employees
in the company sending
complaints or insults via mass email.
So sending an email to all the company
and insulting like specific co-workers
or your boss or your manager.
And then making false
accusations of harassment
on your way out the door
just to cause them problems
because companies have
to properly investigate that
and properly investigating
something, cost them money.
This is now apparently 10% of
people who quit do something
that falls under this
revenge quitting category.
But the problem is causing
problems for businesses
in Japan on purpose is
called obstruction of business
and it can actually lead
to claims for damages.
So some companies are now
going to fight back against this
and actually start
sending, I don’t know if
you get, they’re not
going to get arrested.
The police are going
to contact you and say,
you did this thing, you damaged
this company, you’re now
being, you know, have a,
it’s not going to be a warrant.
What, you got to pay a fine
or restitution of some sort
for the damage you did to
the business that you left.
So it’s something to be aware of.
I don’t know what the systems are like.
I think in America, the
very at will sort of nature
in most contracts means
like they can fire you anytime,
but also means you can quit anytime,
which means it’s really hard to make a case
for something being done purposefully
or maliciously and make that stick.
Where in Japan, that
system is not in place.
So my brain just went, my brain
just angry quit, revenge quit on me.
So let’s end that story.
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There is a tradition in Osaka
when the hunching Tigers
baseball team wins a
game, wins a championship,
not just a game, when
they win a championship,
people jump into the river
in the middle of this city.
That’s a really bad idea because any river
in the middle of any
city is probably disgusting.
They found when testing that recently,
there is a sanitation
risk because there is
200 to 5,000 E. coli
per 100 milliliters.
So if I jump in, some gets in my
mouth, I’m probably going to get E.
coli or something related to it.
In 1985, sort of when this tradition
started, they threw, they won a championship
and they threw a statue for
Colonel Sanders from KFC.
They threw him into the river.
And then they actually
had the Colonel’s curse
because they weren’t winning
championships anymore.
They actually blamed everyone.
They said, because you
threw the Colonel into
the river, that is why
we didn’t win a game.
But then they won a game in 2003.
I keep saying game, but it
actually should be championship.
In 2003, they won a championship.
53 people jumped into the river.
2023, they won a
championship two years ago.
26 people jumped into the river.
And now people are jumping into the river
not necessarily because of their
massive fans of the hunched and tigers.
They’re jumping in the river because
they know they’re going to get video
because they’re going to do
it for their own live streams
because they’re going
to do it for internet cloud.
And the government, the local
government’s like, this is a dirty river.
Don’t jump into this river.
It’s not healthy, it’s not safe.
Do not do this, but people are doing it.
And now they’re worried
about people doing it
in bigger numbers because
now you can put that stuff
on the internet and
go, look at the crazy eye
time I had in Japan
when I jumped on the river.
Look how they have this tradition and
I participated in this tradition in Japan.
And it’s dangerous and you might get sick.
And as Nirvana, the band
just said, you might die.
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Four people were arrested.
And what they were arrested for was performing
lewd acts live streamed on strip chat.
One of the world’s largest pornographic
sites I had never heard of strip chat before.
I guess I got the two three favorites.
I go back to them again and again.
The president of a company
who’s only 28 years old,
companies called Topah and three women
committed acts of indecency in public.
So this is a very interesting
thing ’cause normally
these stories are about
the lack of censorship.
So I run my own company.
We did a story about the
guy who runs essentially
the biggest porn site
in Japan he got arrested
and his claim was, oh, I
didn’t know you were supposed
to censor the pornography in
Japan because I grew up in America
despite being a Japanese
person when he was
born and a Japanese
person living in Japan.
He was claiming cultural ignorance
and he actually kind of worked.
None of these guys are
gonna be able to get away
with it they all lived in
Japan their entire lives.
The three women are a
24 year old manager of the
company and two unemployed
women ages 40 and 34.
When I was talking about this story
with a friend of mine, the
first thing she said was 40,
who performed the lewd
acts for the online content.
So basically what they do
is they set up live streaming
on this website called StripChat
and it’s based in Cyprus.
So technically they’re like
maybe trying to get around it
that way saying like we’re not filming the
content and it’s being streamed in Japan.
We’re filming the content in Japan
but we’re streaming it to Cyprus
and therefore we’re getting
around the censorship laws.
But the problem is you’re still
doing the lewd acts in Japan.
So you’re not gonna be
able to get around it that way.
And the funny thing is the
website, StripChat supports
Japanese language which
means it’s partially target
at Japanese audience
so they know what they’re
doing, they know they’re
doing it on purpose.
Like any other streaming site,
viewers can pay viewing fees,
they can give gifts and
money to support the
performers and those
people doing the live stream.
The website deducts a commission
but you’re able to make a lot of money.
Topah has solicited women being via…
Topah has solicited women via advertisements
posting on social media
site X, the everything app.
Containing such enticements as being paid
up to 85% of revenue and saying hourly pay
can be over 30,000 yen,
so 30,000 yen an hour.
More than 100 people have registered themselves
at an office operated by the company.
The investigative sources
said that the company’s
shot video images of naked
women in their lewd acts,
mainly in studios in Tokyo
and live stream the content.
The company has gained over 100 million yen
in viewing fees and other
rewards via the website
since February last year and
distributed money to performers.
According to similar web limited,
a website analyzing service firm,
StripChat has been
accessed about 667 million
times on month on
average from May to July.
So they are making tons and tons of money.
Accesses from Japan
accounted for 20% of the total
which was the second largest target
after 21% from the United States.
Japan and America have their proclivities.
I don’t know.
They are very firm on
chasing the pornography.
America’s always number one
in Japan’s always number two.
Like that’s pretty consistent across when
they do porn hub end of year stuff, Japan.
And they are accessing what
they know as a legal content.
They know it and it’s
supposed to be censored
and they know what they’re seeing
on these sites which is not censored.
And that’s a few much they can do about it.
But they are going
consistently after these creators.
Because it wasn’t public, it’s interesting
because it doesn’t sound
like they were outside in public.
It sounds like they were
just in studios that they
rented but that’s still I
guess counts as public.
So they’re actually making the
charge a little worse because of that.
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