The size of Japan's sex industry market is estimated at least 1.2 trillion yen (9.4 billion dollars)," said Takashi Kadokura, an economist at Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute, who recently published books about Japan's underground economy.
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The delivery of erotic content is possible via high-speed broadband connections, and Internet subscribers can watch blue movies on computer screens for a monthly fee of about 3,000 yen (25 dollars).
Takashi Kadokura, an economist at Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute who studies Japan's underground economy, says more and more Japanese are watching illegal adult [illegal in this case means showing genitals, legal Japanese porn blurs them] films via the Internet.
"There are several new trends in Japan with the Internet, such as the increase of viewers of illegal porno films," he says. "The market for this illegal business is roughly 20 billion dollars."
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