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Taro Toporific wrote:... Gov't eyes tougher visa screening on foreign dancers, singers
Japan Today, Aug 27
TOKYO --- The Justice Ministry intends to tighten its visa screening on foreign women entering Japan as dancers and singers to try to prevent crime syndicates from forcing them into prostitution ...
Foreigners looking to enter Japan on an entertainment visa will have to make more of a song and dance from next year.
According to the Foreign Ministry, around 130,000 foreigners were granted entertainment visas in 2003. Roughly 80,000 ``entertainers'' were Filipinos. Women from Russia, Romania and the Ukraine made up a sizable portion of the remaining 50,000.
Over half are estimated to be working as hostesses in clubs that cater to Japanese men-a line of work that the visa does not allow for.
GomiGirl wrote:Well all those on "fake" Entertainer visas ... Regulate it, don't ignore it and pretend that it doesn't happen. Australia made prostitution legal years ago for just this reason.
Marvin wrote:I find them most entertaining, especially when they play the shakuhachi
Marvin wrote:... but it's not much use trying to play the shakuhachi with me...I'm hung like an acorn. Might have a hope with a harmonica, though. Or perhaps a kazoo?
Marvin wrote:A lesbian would probably do, too. She could pretend it was a clitoris.
Marvin wrote:... but only because the bloody thing is too small to appear on screen ...
Japan plans to slash ten-fold the number of visas issued to Filipinos as "entertainers" in a bid to stop sex trafficking, a problem of which the the scale has seen Japan put on a US watchlist.
Japan would trim the number of entertainment visas issued to Filipinos from 80,000 to 8,000 a year, according to Kyodo News, which said it obtained a government action plan against human trafficking.
Japan offers six-month residency to certified dancers, singers or other entertainers, but rights activists say the provision is abused by traffickers to bring in women -- often Filipinas -- and push them into the sex trade.
Japan would decrease the number of visas by demanding more from applicants, who currently need only to show that they are certified in an art by their home country, Kyodo News said.
Besides Filipinos, Japan annually issues between 6,000 and 7,000 entertainment visas each to citizens of the United States, China and Russia.
Japan has vowed to do more to stop the sex trade after a damning US report in June that put its close ally on a watchlist of countries involved in human trafficking.
The US State Department had said Japan has "a huge problem with slavery, particularly sex slavery" but that there was a "tremendous gap" between the size of the problem and the resources devoted to addressing it.
mr. sparkle wrote:Looks like Kabuki-cho to me.
Big Booger wrote:This will just make the chikans come out and play a bit more on the regular population...
...I say let them come. Clean it up by legalizing prostitution and regulating it and the shady side of that business should all but disappear. Look at Las Vegas IE the bunny ranch as a perfect example of how a legal brothel should be run.
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