Sex crimes linked to Japanese internet dating services have more than doubled in six months according to police figures.
Almost 800 crimes in which victims were contacted through online dating sites have been reported since January. More than 70 per cent of these involved sex with teenage girls.
In almost all of the cases internet-enabled mobile phones were used to access the dating sites.
According to the Jiji Press news agency, web-based dating sites have become increasingly popular in Japan, especially among the more than 55 million users of internet-equipped mobile phones.
In the first six months of this year, 793 web-related crimes were reported, compared with 888 for the whole of 2001.
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