ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how Adult video (AV) inspections at Eizorin are conducted through a detailed ethnography of the Inspection Centre of Eizorin in Tokyo. It demonstrates how the spatial aspects of its office, the inspection procedures, and the prescribed way of conducting the inspection process reflect Eizorin’s two strategies to build a new order in the Japanese AV industry: moralisation and bureaucratisation. The administrative office is also a highly organised office space, with all the important administrative information posted and necessary devices gathered there. Located at the farthest end, the inspection zone does not have a separate entrance that opens into the corridor; instead, it is linked to the administrative office through a connecting door so that anyone who enters the inspection zone has to go through the administrative office. Once the whole inspection is completed, Eizorin will send the respective AV makers the results of the inspection through their person-in-charge.
