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SOD Land, Kabukicho’s “Adult Theme Park”, Running Again After Police Shutdown
Last year, cops shut down a major adult video maker’s Kabukicho bar. Now it’s back — and its owner is grousing about how much it cost him.
By Jay Allen
Last year, cops shut down a major adult video maker’s Kabukicho bar. Now it’s back — and its owner is grousing about how much it cost him.
One of Japan’s largest adult video (AV) makers found itself in some tough straits last year when police busted them for operating a Kabukicho bar without a license. Now, SOD Land is back, and the parent company’s CEO is apologetic. But he’s also sore about how much complying with the law cost him.
The crackdown
Soft on Demand (SOD) is a major maker and distributor of adult videos in Japan. Running since 1995, the company boasts over 1.2 billion yen in sales (around USD $80 million) and a yearly profit of around 400 million yen (USD $2.6 million).
Not content to make money just from its main business, SOD has branched out into Japanese nightlife. It ran its own brand of reflexology massage clinics from 2010 to 2015. It opened…
