Part 3 Implementing the high priority items identified by the Beijing Platform for Action

9. The girl-child

(1) Purchase of juvenile prostitution

Youth Protection Ordinances with obscenity provisions to control "obscene sexual act or indecent act to juveniles" have been enacted in most local governments except for Nagano Prefecture .
Because existing provisions did not sufficiently restrict the so-called "patronage dating" in which young girls in particular receive money in return for sexual favors, the Metropolitan Government of Tokyo revised its ordinance for juvenile protection on December 16, l997, in response to this situation.
Significant characteristics of the amendment can be found in provisions prohibiting adults from having sexual intercourse or a similar act with a juvenile in exchange for money or goods or through procuration (prostitution), and introducing punitive measures against adults who engage in such intercourse with a juvenile.