Mafia smuggling Taiwan hookers to Japan, CIB reports
2003/9/29 -- TAIPEI, Taiwan, The China Post
....None of the promises would be kept once the recruits reached Japan. They would be escorted to brothels. Their passports would be detained, and they had to work 85 days out of the 90 their entry visas allowed.
They had to earn at least 600,000 yen or NT$180,000 in the three months they could stay in Japan. If the norm was not fulfilled, they had either to overstay their visas or make up for the shortage.
Another alternative was for them to leave Japan and return after a brief stay in Korea. In that case, they had to pay an extra 300,000 yen.
Still another was to obtain a false marriage license for 1,000,000 yen. After the fake marriage with a Japanese, a Taiwan hooker could stay indefinitely in Japan.
Anyone who refused to work would have to pay no less than NT$180,000 before her Japanese mafioso boss would release her.
Absenteeism was not tolerated. Mobsters would beat and otherwise abuse Taiwan women to coerce submission. Many would be given drugs. Some have been killed...
Escapees who succeeded in making their way back to Taiwan would have to face the mob on the island, according to the CIB report. "Our mobsters work closely together with their Japanese counterparts..."