On July 2, the Osaka District Court gave guilty verdicts to low-ranking ring members Kaito Takimoto, 26, and Shunto Niiyama, 21, for forcing girls aged under 20 to engage in prostitution in Akita and Fukushima prefectures in Tohoku and the central prefectures of Ishikawa and Fukui.
Takimoto was sentenced to two years and six months in prison, suspended for five years, and Niiyama to one year and six months in prison, suspended for four years.
The Osaka police are investigating the tokuryu ring to identify others involved in the crime and to find additional victims.
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