Editing Burusera (section)

==Legal restrictions==
In August 1994, a burusera shop manager who made a schoolgirl under 18 sell her used underwear was arrested by the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]] on suspicion of violation of article 34 of the ''Child Welfare Act'' and article 175 of the ''[[Criminal Code of Japan|Criminal Code]]''. The police alleged violations of the ''Secondhand Articles Dealer Act'' which bans the purchase of secondhand goods without authorization.<ref>[http://www.npa.go.jp/hakusyo/h06/h060500.html 警察白書 (Police White Paper), 1994.] (in Japanese)</ref>

[[Child pornography in Japan|Child pornography]] [[Child pornography laws in Japan|laws]] imposed [[child pornography laws in Japan|legal control]] over the child pornography industry in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main/?printID=&ky=work&re=02&page=18&vm=03&id=100 |title=児童買春，児童ポルノに係る行為等の処罰及び児童の保護等に関する法律 (Act on Punishment of Activities Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children) |access-date=2009-08-24 |archive-date=2012-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221224425/http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main/?printID=&ky=work&re=02&page=18&vm=03&id=100 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  However, burusera goods in themselves are not child pornography, and selling burusera goods is a legal way for under 18 schoolgirls to gain extra income. This has been viewed with suspicion as potential [[child sexual abuse]].<ref>[http://www.nichibenren.or.jp/ja/kokusai/humanrights_library/un/crime_report-9th_en.html The Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment Offenders Cairo, Egypt: A Report from the Japan Federation of Bar Associations to the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of　Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, March 1995, Japan Federation of Bar Associations.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110408120454/http://www.nichibenren.or.jp/ja/kokusai/humanrights_library/un/crime_report-9th_en.html |date=April 8, 2011 }}</ref>

Prefectures in Japan began enforcing regulations in 2004 that restricted purchases and sales of used underwear and saliva of people under 18.<ref>[http://www.reiki.metro.tokyo.jp/reiki_honbun/g1012150001.html 東京都青少年の健全な育成に関する条例 (Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance on Juvenile Protection) Articles 15, 15-2 and 15-3.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003033510/http://www.reiki.metro.tokyo.jp/reiki_honbun/g1012150001.html |date=2013-10-03 }} (in Japanese)</ref>