Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police have cracked a brazen public indecency case that sounds straight out of a porno script.
Two unemployed men and a 22-year-old female part-timer were arrested after allegedly filming and broadcasting a live sex show from a love hotel in Kabukicho.
The trio — Shinya Niikawa, 31, Shosei Tomizuka, 27, and Momoko Miyajima, 22 — have admitted to performing explicit acts on the popular overseas adult site StripChat on the evening of April 13.
According to reports, the first 25 minutes were offered for free, with the performers teasing viewers by covering their private parts. The stream quickly exploded in popularity, peaking at a staggering 8,000 simultaneous viewers.
Once the real action started, fans had to pay with cryptocurrency “tips” to keep watching — roughly ¥120 per minute. The single session reportedly earned the group around ¥1 million (approx. RM25,300).
But police say that was just one night of a much bigger operation.
Investigators believe Niikawa began running similar livestreams around June 2025. In roughly one year, he allegedly recruited around 200 different women and staged approximately 500 streams, generating a suspected total of ¥100 million (approx. RM2.53 million) in illegal earnings.
The suspects were all charged with public indecency. Authorities are now digging deeper into whether more people were involved, where the money went, and how the profits were split.
The case has sent shockwaves through Tokyo’s notorious entertainment district, shining a spotlight on the booming — and largely unregulated — world of overseas adult webcam platforms.
