CNN Feature - "Human Trafficking in Japan"

[Mulboyne]

CNN has posted the transcript of their "Insight" programme

Human Trafficking in Japan

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It is a sight in plain view in Japan. Foreign women working the bars and streets of red light districts euphemistically called talent. They have brokers and pimps, managers, but the life of a talent is anything but entertaining.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I wanted to quit, but the mafia didn't let me. They forced me into prostitution, even when I was pregnant. They followed me and threatened to kill my baby if I didn't (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

SHUBERT: A U.S. State Department report on human trafficking described Japan as having a large problem in trafficking, placing the country on a watch list. The report says, quote, "Considering the resources available, Japan could do much more to protect its thousands of victims of sexual slavery."

OMIRA NAGATSKA (ph), COLOMBIAN EMBASSY (through translator): Japan is a paradise for traffickers. We brought one victim to the police and told them that she is a victim of human trafficking. He told me there is no human trafficking in Japan. If there is no human trafficking, what is she? She is illegal, the officer says.

AIKEN: Joining us now from Seattle, Ambassador John Miller. He is the director of the U.S. State Department's Office To Monitor And Combat Trafficking In Persons.

Is it that things in Japan has changed, or is it that the State Department has changed the way in which it monitors this that Japan finds itself on a watch list?

JOHN MILLER, U.S. STATE DEPT.: Well, we're operating with a law that's only be in effect a couple of years, and I think in the last year or two we've come to realize that this is not just a problem in the less developed nations of the world where trafficking victims may originate. It's a problem in wealthier destination countries where the trafficking victims end up.

Japan is one. Western Europe, also. The United States. We're all destination countries.

I think what stood out about Japan was the huge nature of the problem and the relatively small amount of resources devoted by this wealthy democracy towards meeting the problem.

[Captain Japan]

CNN has posted the transcript of their "Insight" programme

The Asahi had an "opinion" piece on this issue on Wednesday.

POINT OF VIEW /Keiko Tamai:Japan wakes up to scourge of human trafficking

In its latest Trafficking in Persons Report, an annual study based on the Trafficking Victim Protection Act, the U.S. Department of State listed Japan among the destinations of human trafficking.

The report puts the Japanese government into the category of those not fully complying with the act's minimum standards, such as passing legislation against trafficking, protecting the victims and so forth, although making efforts to bring itself into compliance with those standards.

A lot of rehashing and not much opinion, though.

[kotatsuneko]

couldnt he afford something better than a commodore 64?

all that tape loading isnt very ghetto is it? :P

[Taro Toporific]

CNN has posted the transcript of their "Insight" programme
Human Trafficking in Japan

In a different segment about Trafficking shown on CNN at 7pm JST, the same report had Gilbert King the author of a book called "Women: Child For Sale," estimating 17,000 trafficked women in the US last year. King explains the same proble, Japan has]AIKEN: Missing from all of this so far has been a conversation about the United States. The idea of sex trade taking place in Thailand or Mexico, not surprising for many. What about the United States? Is this an issue within the borders of this country?

KING: It certainly is. I mean, the numbers are not quite as staggering. I think the State Department estimates somewhere around 17,000 per year are coming into the United States. But it's a very quiet thing. You don't hear about it because the media tends to report it as a prostitution issue, you know, more prostitutes having pimp problems. Let's arrest them and deport them.[/quote]

[torasan]

That was a good CNN show, too bad it took them 10 years to do it. this was a problem way back in 1991. The govt doesn't give a shit, they are in it with the yakuza, it IS a major human trafficking tragedy of major proportions and Japan raises its limp wrist once again. Go away, girls!

There is huge money here for the gangsters thru out ASia selling girls here, but the problem is gonna come back and haunt Japan, already has, with the AIDS thing. Half of Japan will have HIV by 2050. The worst is yet to come.

what human trafficking? None in japan. Just a bunch of illegal lassies.

and yes, UK and US and France and Hooland, it's all over the world now.

it's get worse. These girls come to Japan with a Yen3 million debit UNQOTE, and when they paid it off after 3 or 4 years, they get sold to a new pub very often, and get saddled with a new "debt." They never leave the country alive! In body and soul, I mean! And to what purpose is all this for? So J-Salarimen can get their rox off cause their wives are too busy taking care of Taro?

Sad. Good on CNN but 10 years too late. The pandemic has been released.

[Taro Toporific]

...it's get worse. These girls come to Japan with a Yen3 million debit UNQOTE, and when they paid it off after 3 or 4 years, they get sold to a new pub very often, and get saddled with a new "debt." They never leave the country alive! In body and soul, I mean! And to what purpose is all this for? So J-Salarimen can get their rox off cause their wives are too busy taking care of Taro?

Now wait a minute. Isn't "Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp" supposed to be the the love'em and leave 'em type with the ladies?

[blackcat]

http://www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/korea/korea01news55.htm

korea are cracking down(or so they say) on the sex industry and human trafficking in particular...

""The crackdown began on Sept. 23 under a strengthened anti-prostitution law aimed at combatting human trafficking. Brothel owners now face up to 10 years in jail. Clients too have lost the innocence once conferred upon them by a notoriously male-dominated society, and as Asahi Geino's exclamatory headline notes, "onna-asobi", literally "playing with women," is newly punishable by imprisonment of up to a year"

japan says ohhhh not fair...does this mean back to enjo kosai and molesting own own women??
An unenforced law is to all intents and purposes no law at all, and South Korea's skin trade generated an estimated 24 trillion won (2.4 trillion yen) a year. Foreigners, Japanese prominent among them, flocked to Seoul's world-famous red-light districts and, judging by the amount of money they spent, had themselves quite a time."

but here comes the "japan Victim Syndrome"

" "There are rumors," it hears from a Japanese travel agent, "that the law is really aimed at foreigners, Japanese in particular."

well well WONDER WHY
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[igor]

" "There are rumors," it hears from a Japanese travel agent, "that the law is really aimed at foreigners, Japanese in particular."

Who's the gaijin now?

[Taro Toporific]

Just for a comparison....

Call Girls, Updated
NYTimes.com (no registration required) by Andrew Jacobs Oct 11There are no official gauges of the sex industry, but if the Manhattan Yellow Pages is any guide, it is thriving. ...
....There are no official gauges of the sex industry, but if the Manhattan Yellow Pages is any guide, it is thriving, with more than 30 pages under the heading "escorts." (By comparison, there are fewer than half as many pages devoted to psychologists, plumbers or real estate brokers.) Even publications like New York magazine carry advertisements hawking "Hot Asian Sweeties" and "Busty Blondes." ....
<--Mae-san of the above NYTimes interview

[Mulboyne]

IHT: Japan aims to stop trafficking of prostitutes
TOKYO After years of denying it had a problem with human trafficking, Japan is now putting the finishing touches on a law that would make the practice illegal in this country and help foreigners forced into the sex industry. Over the next months, the new law, along with programs to assist victims testifying against traffickers, could begin to slow the illegal flow of women into one of the world's biggest destinations for foreign prostitutes.
In Japan, the foreign women who are victims of trafficking end up working everywhere from Tokyo's sprawling red-light districts to rural areas unfamiliar to most foreigners. They stand on street corners and sit behind glass windows; they serve as sex performers or hostesses at clubs outside of which they are expected to date customers. A 28-year-old Colombian woman, who spent four years working as a prostitute in Japan, mostly to repay $45,000 she owed the criminals who sold and bought her, finally fled to her embassy here late last year. Having given testimony that could help arrest her traffickers, she now waits for authorization from immigration officials to return to Medellin, Colombia, to be reunited with her 12-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter. "We shouldn't be treated as criminals to be deported out of Japan, but as victims," she said in an interview at the Colombian Embassy...more...