Net sites cater to quest for Russian brides
The Japan Times, Aug 12... A [Japanese] man can pick up to 20 of them and send his profile back via an Internet marriage agency. In a few weeks, he is off to Russia for about four days to meet up to eight of those who agree to see him.
If a match is made, he will be introduced to the woman's parents, then invite her to visit Japan on a three-month visitor visa. Afterward, if all goes well, nuptials.....cost each man between 1 million yen and 4 million yen, according to insiders.
....And when things don't click, there's the potential for abuse. ...
... Russian woman who came to visit a man she met through an agency was locked up in his apartment throughout her three-month stay while he was at work, as he was afraid she would escape....
....an agency in Kyoto that brought Russian women to Japan on the pretext of introducing them to marriage partners, but instead made them work as prostitutes.
.... agency operators forced women to have sex with them, or made them marry men they didn't like, in return for settling their debts to the agency.
...d the women can also be at fault, citing cases in which women who came to visit his clients bolted the minute they arrived in Japan, as their real intention was to find work here.