Japan's Humor Ministry tightens 'Entertainer' visas

[Taro Toporific]

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 ...

[kurohinge1]

... 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 ...

I can't dance or sing but if I tell them I can "do wonderful things with fruit", do you think they'd give me one ...

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: Entertainers to face stricter visa rules

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]

Well all those on "fake" Entertainer visas need to wear a scarlet letter on their clothes to show how shameful they are to be working as hostesses..

Honestly... supply and demand market people!!! If Japan doesn't like the hostesses coming to Japan then they need to stop people from spending money in the hostess bars who are *gasp* Japanese.

But if they stop the girls from getting entertainer visas then there will be an increase of illegal workers (hence a danger of increased human trafficking) in this industry. Regulate it, don't ignore it and pretend that it doesn't happen. Australia made prostitution legal years ago for just this reason.

[AssKissinger]

It ain't gonna change. They'll make sure there's enough Ukrainians around to do the necessary lawmaker dick suckin'.

[Taro Toporific]

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.

Question: Is it my wild guess that Japanese prostitution* is many, many times greater than Australian prostitution?


*(Just pulling a figure out of my ass it's 5% of the Japanese GDP.)

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[cstaylor]

Question: Is it my wild guess that Japanese prostitution* is many, many times greater than Australian prostitution?

Why did I just read this as "Australian population"?

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[Steve Bildermann]

I find them most entertaining, especially when they play the shakuhachi

I seem to recall we discussed your shakuhachi before, didn't we?

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[kurohinge1]

... 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?

Or try an "entertainer" with strong glasses



"Mitsukatta, Raian-san"

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[kamome]

A lesbian would probably do, too. She could pretend it was a clitoris.

Come on, Marvin. You can't possibly have such a little tweeter. You're sounding like Howard Stern.

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[kurohinge1]

... but only because the bloody thing is too small to appear on screen ...

"... you don't know the POWER of ... CGI"

You could be hung like a LOTR giant elephant, if you wanted ... in the movies, that is ...


It would certainly give new meaning to "Lord Of The Rings".


I know, I know, 'get back in my box' ...

[Taro Toporific]

I know, I know, 'get back in my box' ...

Get the Gimp.

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[Captain Japan]

Can you really find an FG hostess in a box on a street somewhere in Japan?
Japan plans to slash visas to Filipinos to curb sex trade

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.

[Mulboyne]

The picture looks like Shinjuku but I`m pretty sure I`ve seen that in Shibuya just off Center Gai.

[djgizmoe]

Just heard about a 'hostess' box zone in one of the sleazier areas of Osaka's Tennoji district...Any Kansai FG know the place?

[Big Booger]

This will just make the chikans come out and play a bit more on the regular population.

Those filipinos come here to work as prostitutes for the most part.. I know several who come, then when their visa expires they come back, and they know the jobs their gonna be filling...

I say let the 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.

[Mulboyne]

I was in Center Gai and that box isn`t where I thought it was so I give up

[mr. sparkle]

Looks like Kabuki-cho to me.

[Taro Toporific]

Looks like Kabuki-cho to me.

Concrete is concrete: Japan looks like Japan.

Many times I see a place on a TV show and I swear I've been there.
Rhen SLAM-BANG they show its some sleaze-land in Kansai I've never been.

[Taro Toporific]

SAVE OUR HOOKERS!

AFP/Getty Images, Dec 15---
MANILA, PHILIPPINES: Filipina women raise their fists during a protest outside the Department of Labor and Employment in Manila, 15 December 2004...protested against the Japanese government's decision to slash ten-fold the number of visas issued to Filipinos as entertainers in a bid to stop sex trafficking, a problem whose scale has put Japan on a US watch list.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Goddam, now the price of Filipinas is going to go up.

[vir-jin]

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.

I don't think that legalization of prostitution does contribute to a society I want to be surrounded with. neither in Japan nor anywhere else. and anybody who cuts off my personal human rights will get the bill. I might not be able to change the situation but I will be able to fight any chikan crossing my way. the last one I met was intensely scrutinized, when I begun to talk to him in front of everybody else and took some photographs with my keitai.I told him that he was the first chikan I met in Japan.


If you can rule the streets you can rule the government.

[Skankster]

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I think filipinas are the worst hostesses money can buy.

[vir-jin]

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I think filipinas are the worst hostesses money can buy.

actually, japanese are the worst hosts money can buy.