FUKUOKA -- The operators of a Fukuoka-based prostitution ring called "Candy Club" sent 61 teenage girls to customers some 3,000 times over an 18-month period beginning in March last year, raking in sales of about 100 million yen, police investigators have learned.

The club reportedly solicited clients through cell-phone based sites. Some of the girls were as young as 14, and none were older than 17. One of the girls reportedly brought in 3 million yen for the ring over two months.

On Thursday police sent documents to prosecutors accusing a 20-year-old worker at the club of violating child welfare laws, bringing their investigations into the establishment to a close.

Investigators said the worker introduced a 16-year-old girl to a customer at a hotel in Kitakyushu on Nov. 27 last year, making her perform indecent acts with him.

The club was opened in March last year by Shinichi Takahashi, 28, a former sex club worker from Fukuoka's Hakata-ku who has been charged with violating child welfare laws. Takahashi and others in the case allegedly posed as women, writing messages on cell-phone matchmaking sites to solicit customers, and forced girls to engage in prostitution in hotels in Kitakyushu and Fukuoka for between 20,000 yen and 70,000 yen a time.

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Kudos to the police.

Prostitution rings are very common in Japan.

Look what too much money does for the Japanese ...too much sex club -

is that legal... 14 yearolds...

those japan see what too much techer and student anime give to them
underage sex