The Justice Ministry is moving toward revising Japan's anti-prostitution law to punish the sex buyers, addressing a legal imbalance that has only targeted the sellers for 70 years, according to government sources.
I seem to remember sex as being strictly defined as p-in-v penetrative action very narrowly thus allowing other acts to not count for those purposes. Soaplands aren’t technically that and host clubs don’t do any action on the clock or directly for cash.
Soaplands and host clubs were already fairly grey wink wink nod nod affairs so not sure that changes much.
I seem to remember sex as being strictly defined as p-in-v penetrative action very narrowly thus allowing other acts to not count for those purposes. Soaplands aren’t technically that and host clubs don’t do any action on the clock or directly for cash.
Edit: clarity.