No building can be used until officially inspected, approved, and licensed, and no buildings of three-stories and upwards, calculated to attract the public gaze, can be erected outside the brothel-quarters.
Buildings at present existing are to be made to conform to these requirements upon the occasion of extensive repairing or rebuilding.
Brothel-keepers are only allowed to attend to their own particular business, and are absolutely forbidden, under pain of having their licenses cancelled or suspended, to further engage in the businesses of restaurant-keepers or geisha (singing girl) keepers. The carrying on of such secondary businesses was stopped on the 1st October, 1900.
Licenses will be cancelled if business is not commenced within three months, or if suspended for twelve months, and all changes of personal status, change of domicile, etc., etc., are to be reported to the Police within three days.
Dancing, singing, music, etc., is forbidden after midnight in brothels and tea-houses outside the actual brothel districts; and such establishments are forbidden to display attractive sign-boards, bright lamps and lanterns, etc., which produce a showy appearance in the road.
Keepers of brothels and tea-houses are bound to provide guest registers (yūkyaku-jin-meib�) and to enter therein a minute description of all guests. These registers have to be stamped by the Police, and if lost or damaged the Police must be notified within three days.
In order to check the movements of employees, brothel-keepers and tea-house-keepers are prohibited from engaging employees who possess no “Employee’s Book� (“yatoinin-meib��), and when engaging or discharging persons, the Police have to be notified, within three days, of the status, domiciles, names, and ages, etc., of such parties.
To prevent secret prostitution in brothels, brothel-keepers are bound to report to the Police, within twenty-four hours, the presence of any woman lodging in their houses.
For the protection of the public, brothel-keepers and “introducing tea-houses� are strictly enjoined; (1) not to force guests to consume food and drink not voluntarily ordered; (2) not to send out touts (kyaku-hiki) or to induce people to dissipate either by means of advertisements or other means; (3) not to harbour persons under age or students and pupils wearing the insignia of schools or colleges; (4) not to conceal the presence of guests or deny persons interviews with guests; (5) not to accept clothes or other articles from guests in lieu of cash payment, or in pledge, except the guest has accompanied the keeper to the Police Station, and consented to such transaction in the presence of a Police Officer.