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	Enjo kosai - Biocrawler
		Enjo kōsai, (援助交際, えんじょこうさい), or "dating for assistance", in English usually called compensated dating, is a practice in Japan where high school-aged girls are paid by older men to accompany them on dates and/or to render sexual services.
		It appeared after the end of the 1980s economic boom, and many observers believe that it serves as a way for young girls to preserve the lifestyle of that era, despite their families' more difficult financial situations.
		Because the age of consent in Japan ranges from 13 to 17, depending on jurisdiction, enjo kōsai clients cannot be charged with statutory rape.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Enjo_kosai (295 words)

	Enjo kōsai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enjo kōsai is linked with the consumerist kogal subculture.
		However, enjo kōsai has not been regulated by the Japanese government, as it does not fall within the legal definition of prostitution unless the client expressly pays the girl for sex (which is rare, given the indirect nature of the transactions).
		Because the age of consent in Japan ranges from 13 to 17, depending on jurisdiction, enjo kōsai clients often cannot be charged with statutory rape.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enjo_kosai (678 words)

	ECPAT News
		Minors engaging in enjo kosai have common characteristics in all of the countries mentioned in the report.
		Though children who were forced into prostitution due to poverty are shown sympathy and protected, children who engaged in enjo kosai are targets of accusation as they have emphasized their sexual openness.
		Given the reality of the proliferation of enjo kosai in Asia, immediate action should be taken in a cool-headed manner out of consideration for what can be done for such children.
	www.ecpat.net /eng/ECPAT_news/yomiuri.htm (652 words)

	Werewolf.com Discussion Boards - Japan: Moral (and other) problems with enjo kosai
		Enjo kosai is the practice among a certain social class of school aged Japanese girls of dating older men in exchange for money.
		The problem with this view is that the Japanese infatuation with the kogal and with enjo kosai clearly involves a fetish (preoccupation with "an object of abnormal love or passion," according to Webster) and a taboo (something prohibited by social custom).
		While even the most liberal estimates limit enjo kosai to 13 percent of school-aged girls, a Tokyo survey found that an amazing 75 percent of girls responding had been solicited by older men interested in enjo kosai.
	www.werewolf.com /vb/showthread.php?t=9922 (1475 words)

	Japan for the Uninvited: Enjo Kosai (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Enjo kosai is one of Japanese society's most infamous phenomenon: schoolgirls dating older men for money.
		Japanese children lead a restrictive life at home and school, so enjo kosai could be seen as a sexual rite of passage for curious young women.
		It wasn't until the mid-90s that enjo kosai was recognised by the Japanese press.
	www.japanfortheuninvited.com /article.php?topic=enjo+kosai (701 words)

	Japan: Sex, Teenage Girls and Consumerism (edstrong.blog-city.com) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Enjo kosai meetings are usually set up using mobile phones, pagers or over the Internet where there are bulletin boards and newsgroups more or less dedicated to facilitating contact between interested parties.
		Some observers view enjo kosai as a kind of sexual rite of passage for the girls and argue that as well as the material gains, the girls are selectively exposing themselves to a world of which they will soon be a part.
		They argue that enjo kosai illustrates that young girls are able to detach their sexuality from their self-image and utilise it as a commodity, a useful practical lesson in a male dominated culture that often views sex and female sexuality in exactly this way.
	edstrong.blog-city.com /japan_sex_teenage_girls_and_consumerism.htm (3906 words)

	Enjo kosai Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dates are then generally arranged by mobile phone or e-mail.
		Despite government ambivalence, enjo kosai has been a major topic in the Japanese media.
		Many enjo kosai encounters end in robbery or rape, and the victims are generally hesitant to report such incidents to the police, for cultural reasons.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/e/en/enjo_kosai.html (287 words)

	Why enjo kosai anchors at Taiwan but not Hong Kong
		In Japan the convergence is an active claim of a subjectivity by teenage girl in response to the material desires and the gaze of the society, while in Taiwan it is a process of active searching and interpellation of a governed object that later turns into a resistant subject.
		In the case of “enjo kosai” in Taiwan, the term is popularized in the past 6 or 7 years.
		As the term “enjo kosai” is originated in Japan in the 70s, I trace the cultural phenomena back in Japan, not to suggest a framework of cultural imperialism, but to show how new meaning of the same term is locally created and how cultural politics works across the border.
	www.inter-asia.org /journal/issues/vol4/no2/13.htm (522 words)

	Enjo Kosai - Television Tropes & Idioms
		Enjo kosai has also been strongly identified in the public eye with the kogal subculture.
		It is no suprise, then, that recent anime have begun to portray enjo kosai, particularly if it is trying to be a youth series, or socially relevant.
		Takumi's girlfriend Natsuki in the original version of Initial D is engaged in enjo kosai from the start of the series.
	tvtropes.org /pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnjoKosai (543 words)

	Voices of Youth - View Single Post - Young, innocent, beautiful/ Japan prostitution style (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ENjo Kosai is NOT considered to be normal for girls to do in Japan.
		ENjo Kosai has been extremly hyped upp, and it is not as usual as you think it out to be.
		Enjo Kosai is infact a myth, the myth is true, but it is not as big of a subject as you think.
	www.unicef.org /voy/discussions/showpost.php?p=9580&postcount=44 (292 words)

	September 4, 1998 Op-Ed
		This piece of legislation is a reaction to the growing trend of enjo kosai, or "compensated dating," which has been sweeping schools and communities throughout Japan in the past few years.
		According to a recent survey of junior high school students in their final year, 17 percent thought there is nothing wrong with enjo kosai and 13 percent replied that they felt no reluctance in practicing it.
		Enjo kosai closely follows the same logic: ethical considerations are set aside for the attainment of wealth.
	www.weekender.co.jp /LatestEdition/980904/oped.html (844 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de - Über Enjo Kosai - Seminararbeit
		Jedoch haben sich auch Soziologen und Genderforscher wissenschaftlich mit der Psychologie und den sozialen Voraussetzungen von Enjo Kôsai beschäftigt.
		Unter den Mädchen mit Erfahrungen bei Enjo Kôsai geben viele an, alles von ihren Eltern zu bekommen, was sie wollen.
		Enjo Kôsai ist ein japanisches Phänomen, da es sich hier um Minderjährige aus der Mittelschicht handelt und nicht aus Armutsschichten.
	www.hausarbeiten.de /zeit/hausarbeit/jap/23749.html (4832 words)

	Print Article: Who's your sugar daddy?
		The play is about the culture of geisha and its modern incarnation, enjo kosai, a sugar-daddy-style set-up where an older, usually married, man sponsors a young girl, often a teenager.
		Nieman says it is a contradictory attitude that has parallels in the enjo kosai, who were demonised by the Japanese press in the 1990s.
		Geisha and enjo kosai are Japanese phenomena, but Nieman believes the issue of female sexuality as a commodity has relevance in the West.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/07/08/1089000287054.html (708 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| Sex in Asia \| Enjo
		I started doing Enjo Kosai my second year of high school.
		I didn't even know there was a law against enjo kosai.
		Enjo kosai's not something my friends and I talk about.
	www.time.com /time/asia/features/sex/sexenjo.html (967 words)

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		Mariko thought she could finalise the conversation by getting the support of the other teachers, who'd been listening and only catching the words 'enjo kosai'.
		Those who saw enjo kosai as a not terribly desirable, but nevertheless harmless activity, and others who viewed it as prostitution.
		It seemed to Lucy that something like "enjo kosai" was bound to occur in a culture saturated with pornographic images of young girls; and where most families actively discouraged teenage dating.
	www.mmjp.or.jp /amlang.atc/tutor/enjo.htm (861 words)

	Domestic News for April 23, 1998: Survey shows friends, family influence 'enjo kosai' trend
		Survey shows friends, family influence 'enjo kosai' trend
		One in 20 high school girls date men for money and most are influenced by conversations with their friends and the attitudes of their families, according to a study released April 23 by the Asian Women's Fund.
		In the study of high school students' attitudes toward "enjo kosai," or "compensated dating," 5 percent of the 600 high school students surveyed said they have gone out with men in return for money or presents.
	www.ishipress.com /enjoko.htm (314 words)

	hackwriters.com - Enjo Kosai - Adventures in a love hotel - J T Brown on compensation dating myth and facts
		The eupehmistic term in Japanese for this avocation is "enjo kosai".
		She flabbergasted me. Not only did she confess that she herself had partaken in it, but she also went on to say, "I think just about all of my friends, and probably all girls in my generation have at least tried it." She was a very bright college freshmen and a good student too.
		school girls have participated in enjo kosai is probably closer to the truth.
	www.hackwriters.com /enjokosai.htm (1991 words)

	ENJO KOSAI, Japan Schoolgirl Prostitution - Work and Live in Asia, Expats in Asia, Teach in Asia, Study Abroad
		ENJO KOSAI, Japan Schoolgirl Prostitution - Work and Live in Asia, Expats in Asia, Teach in Asia, Study Abroad
		One of my favorites is enjo kosai, which translated literally means "compensated dating".
		The exact number of girls practicing enjo kosai is hard to fix, media scare stories of the eighties gave the impression that every other girl was doing it, but a reasonable estimate would be 5%.
	www.eslme.com /country/751/768/1376/200609243832.html (284 words)

	Enjou-kosai
		Enjo kosai was a lot more popular during the bubble and shortly after, but has been pretty dead for a while now.
		What's left of Enjo kosai has moved to the 'telephone clubs', so if you speak Japanese it's a start.
		Back during the peak, 109 in Shibuya was probably the best place around for watching enjo-kosai in action, but if anything it has now simply become the place to meet before proceeding up the hill to the Dogenzaka love hotels.
	forum.myredbook.com /dcforum2/intl/2665.html (939 words)

	RE: Enjo-Kosai !? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I think that enjo kosai is a social problem that should be stopped, even if there are many members on the board who attest to the fact that it's not really that big an issue; that not that many girls engage in it; it's just a small minority etc.
		Then there are also wider considerations, such as the tension between a child's right to be free from sexual exploitation vs their right to engage in sexual relations; issues related to the issue of consent and age of consent; whether prostitution in general is exploitation or a chosen career etc.
		Therefore, despite the media publicity over enjo kosai at the time Japan's own 1999 Child Prostitution Law was enacted, and the references to it by government ministers etc., I feel that the law was in fact enacted primarily in response to pressure for it to take action in the wider, global efforts against CSEC.
	www.crisscross.com /jp/forum/m_19681/mpage_4/key_/tm.htm#647902 (1482 words)

	Discover Vancouver Forum - Enjo-Kosai (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I recently came across this issue due to the fact a friend of mine found out her friend was in this business back in Japan and in reality I've actually met my friend's friend twice in the past two years when she flew here to visit my friend.
		Posted - 4/23/2005 3:22:00 PM Hey, Yes I used to live in Japan for awhile and enjo kosai is a huge thing there.
		I am a British journalist from London and am urgently looking for anyone who could put me in touch with anyone who has had experience of enjo kosai or who is doijg it now.
	www.discovervancouver.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17504 (1099 words)

	Cultura japonesa
		Enjo Kosai (en japonés:援助交際), literalmente significa (asistencia-compañía) y se puede interpretar como “citas asistidas” o “citas por compensación“.
		Este mercadeo, llamado “enjo kosai” (cita compensada) va desde caminar tomados de la mano, una cena romántica, hasta una cita en hotel para tener sexo, donde además es común que se les pida asistir con sus trajes escolares de “sera fuku”.
		Por supuesto el fenómeno del enjo kosai es generalizado en todo el país, no solo las áreas urbanas, sino incluso comunidades rurales el numero de adolescentes con esta actividad es enorme.
	www.animebox.org /~culturajaponesa (3176 words)

	Enjo kosai - Definition, explanation
		The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations.
		Describes the difficulty in addressing the topic of enjo kosai as well as various reactions to it.
		Editorial critical of a moral void in Japan, and looks at while the politicians, media, parents, and teachers show outrage at teen prostitution, they themselves helped create a materialistic culture that spawned it in the first place.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/en/enjo_kosai.php (482 words)

	Love & Pop (1998)
		But the easy money and the strength of their friendship are no match for the pressures and risks they discover in Tokyo's sexual underworld.
		Translated from Japanese, "Enjo Kosai" stands for "compensated socializing"—high-school girls who date older men for money.
		The phenomenon of Enjo Kosai is also the subject of director Hideaki Anno's live-action debut film.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=139160&buy=closed&PID=10114358&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (519 words)

	Movie Info for Bounce Ko Gals on MSN Movies
		Unfortunately, Oshima proves to be a yakuza running a brothel out of a date club, and he regards Maru and her cohorts as unwanted competition.
		When one of Maru's pals, Jonko (Hitomi Sato) -- a street-smart, stun gun-wielding enjo kosai who prefers to swipe the cash from her clients instead of exchanging fluids with them -- tries to negotiate with the mobster on her friend's behalf, she finds herself unwittingly forced into Oshima's stable of whores.
		At the same time, while parading around town in a naughtily tailored schoolgirl uniform for a porn-flick guerrilla shoot, Raku runs into Risa (Yukiko Okamoto), a young lass who finally scraped together enough money for a long-planned trip to New York by selling her panties and consorting with perverts.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=501425 (300 words)

	Enjo Kosai (or teenage prostitution) - Page 2 - Japan Forum
		They also spread it to the girls they pick up for enjo kosai.
		As for the idea that there is no guilt or shame involved, what a bunch of crap.
		It has just dawned on me that enjeeo and enjo (kosai) were very similar (especially if you consider that "eo" is the way Korean write the Japanese sound "o").
	www.jref.com /forum/showthread.php?p=6287 (3053 words)

	Enjo Kosai (compensated dating): japanese schoolgirls whoring themselves out - The Unofficial Opie and Anthony Message ...
		Enjo Kosai (compensated dating): japanese schoolgirls whoring themselves out - The Unofficial Opie and Anthony Message Board - Wackbag.com
		Enjo Kosai (compensated dating): japanese schoolgirls whoring themselves out
		i was tooling around the internet and found out about enko kosai, or compensated dating.
	www.wackbag.com /showthread.php?t=16934 (323 words)

	The truth about "enjo kosai" - Japan Forums
		The phenomenon is called "enjo kosai" and the papers write, that ordinary college or even high school students are involved.
		thanks to the media, you may be deceived by the term "enjo kyosai", but it's a prostitution.
		But I still have som more doubts: Enjo Kosai might not be the same as prostitution, it often just involves ordinary conversation or "holding hands" as you can learn from another website:
	www.gaijinpot.com /bb/showthread.php?p=116303 (3778 words)

	Pop Culture
		One of Japan's most famous cartoon characters is Doraemon, a time-travelling blue robot cat, and Nobita, his ten-year-old pal from suburban Tokyo...
		Subsidized dating, or enjo kosai, is the catchphrase that has been coined for the worrying phenomena of teenage prostitution, whereby high-school girls date...
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	www.justjapan.org /japan/japan-pop-culture.asp (910 words)

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