that's modern japanese culture for you. the whole sting operation is simply a public relations effort to gloss over the fact that japan is a lolicom culture where school girls are idolized and porn featuring school girls is rampant not to mention legal. here's my poem about it:

Ode to Japanese High School Girls
A poem by a thirty-something man in Tokyo

You don’t know,
You really don’t have the slightest clue,
About the world, about the complexities of life,
And you don’t even know…how sexy you are.

Sweet kogyaru, you just don’t know
That you are our after-school special,
Our 4 p.m. fantasy,
Our subway eye candy.

You don’t know how we wait and hope
To catch a glimpse – just a glimpse –
Of your white cotton buru
As you walk up the steps or ride your bike.

You don’t know that your purity is perfection,
That your youth is our desire,
You can’t possibly know, because you are oblivious
In your little world of school books, cell phones and shopping.

In a shopping mall instead of with us,
Your prefer little boys with cool spiky hair,
Just because you can talk about anime together.
You’ll never know what a better lover we would have been.

You’ll live your whole life never knowing
How much you were wanted during your best years.
We would have made you feel like a goddess
Instead of just a girl.

We confess there will come a time,
When we’ll all stop looking at you, after you’ve grown up
And lost the delicateness of your youth.
We’ll be looking for our new kawaii gal.

Remember, it’s your own lolicon culture
Who dressed you in a little sera-fuku,
And made showing thigh part of your curriculum.
You are iconicised, commercialized and objectified.

Kogal, hentai, enjo-kosai…
On the box covers of one million Japanese XXX DVDs.
Funny that they all look just like you,
Yet you still don’t know.

So send your mobile messages to your little friends,
As I sit across from you on the Yamanote, invisible,
Fantasizing, waiting for you to cross those legs,
For a glimpse of heaven.