Four people were arrested, including the managers of two stores in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, for possessing them for the purpose of selling obscene DVDs.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that it has sold more than 100 million yen, mainly for customers in their 50s and 70s.
Four people were arrested, including Masaaki Iwagi (52) and Ikuya Tamura (29), the managers of two DVD stores in Kabukicho, Shinjuku.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, it is suspected that it was possessed for the purpose of selling obscene DVDs at stores and warehouses on the 19th of this month.
In a search of stores, more than 20,000 obscene DVDs and 15 DVD-copying machines were confiscated.
In response to the investigation, they all admit the suspicion.
There used to be many such stores in the downtown area of Tokyo, and more than 200 stores were caught 15 years before the peak, but they disappeared due to the spread of the Internet, and recently only a few stores have remained. Was continuing to sell to middle-aged and older people.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that it has sold more than 100 million yen in total in about one year from last year, mainly for customers in their 50s and 70s.