The Japanese take this school girl theme a little far at times. In fact, it’s quite extreme and prominent. Okay, let’s be honest, it can be found all over the place in Japan.

JK Business is “the practice of compensated dating with adolescent girls. The abbreviation JK stands for joshi kōse and means high school female student.”

According to Wikipedia, Enjo Kosai is “compensated dating and is the practice of older men giving money and/or luxury gifts to attractive women for their companionship or possibly for sexual favors. The female participants range from school girls to housewives.”

You put these two together and you have a whole bunch of shady things going on. And while there is an entertainment side to the industry, there is also much darker one, that is largely being ignored and allowed to operate by the government.

Not only are there neighborhoods with these girls lining the streets for business, but there are also many all-girl groups like SNH48 and Akishibu Project who perform songs to their loyal, adoring, adult male fans, who pay tons of money just to ‘talk’ to them after shows.