Haruka Funaki (37) from Ome City, Tokyo, who runs a date club in Tokyo. Yoshiko Tsuzaki (43), a company executive from Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo.

Hiroshi Katagiri, a self-employed employee from Nagoya. The woman had been in trouble with a staff member of a local prostitution organization and received threats, and was being protected by local police. Funaki, who met the woman several years ago on social media, solicited her by saying things like, "This is a relationship in Las Vegas"