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The article was published in August 2000, but hasn't lost its topicality.
Bright Lights, Brutal Life "Each year, criminals smuggle thousands of women into Japan. They arrive with hopes of finding honest work--only to find a life of sexual slavery awaits them" => http://www.endhomelessnessnow.org/wo...news/traff.htm I remember that once on my way to Tokyo our plane had a stop-over in Manila. There, dozens of young Philippine ladies boarded, all of them excited and made up as glamorous as can be. I had the chance to talk to one of them sitting next to me. She told me she had a six-week contract as a "dancer". She was 28, married with children, but since her husband was jobless, she'd try to raise money in Japan. Hm, I wonder if she really believed in her dancing career. That really left me thinking...
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Almost all are recruited through the yakuza. They end up in Japan without their passports working hostess bars, cabarets, prostitution only to be busted by police raids every so often.
Aparently, even after paying off their highly inflated buy back contracts they still can go home and build a new house. Gee, look at Anita!
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It's not all bad. There's a few Philippinos work in a hostess bar near where I live. I met a couple of them in the local izakaya and it seems they earn more than I do!!!
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Yeah... but what do they have to do for it?
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Talk to businessmen, pour their drinks for them and clap when they sing badly on the Karaoke. Yep - that's really all there is to 95% of hostess bars.
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Tora, Tora, Tiger my son...
It's kind of hard for me to imagine that the Yakuza would go to all the trouble to smuggle girls into the country, for the sole purpose of giving them legit jobs where they ONLY talk to businessmen, pour their drinks for them and clap when they sing badly on the Karaoke. Maybe we are not talking about the same thing here. This thread was started in regard to the prevalence of sexual slavery of gaijin women in Japan.
Did you actually read the article "Bright Lights, Brutal Life"? |
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Let me just add that girl trafficking exists in Europe too. Thousands of Eastern European girls are lured in to the EU by their fellow countrymen every year. They are promised profitable positions as waitresses, dancers etc., but end up in brothels without passport and never manage to pay back their "debts". Authorities though usually take an aggressive stance against such gangs.
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Reminds me of communism: It looks great on paper, but when you factor in human nature... (sigh)..How to win the war and lose the peace in ten easy steps... Some other thoughts about pyramid schemes...
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Re: Tora, Tora, Tiger my son...
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Well, we've had that little test a while ago
=> http://forum.japanreference.com/show...=&threadid=680 ![]() My wife insists that without particular features such as clothes or hair style it's nearly impossible to differentiate Japanese from Chinese and Koreans. |
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oh yah i got very bad, obviously you cant tell the difference....heheh oops!
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Of course you can see differences. Even between Chinese the difference between a Manchurian and a Cantonese is as clear as between a Swedish and an Italian. South Chinese are darker with rounder features. A guy of my class actually made me think of a half-Bengali, half Chinese (but was pure Chinese from Guangzhou). Now it would be extremely dificult to see the physical difference between a Taiwanese and a Chinese, except if they are "aborigenal Taiwanese" rather than mainland Chinese. But the mentality is very different. The Taiwanese I have met were much more reserved, shy and "gloomy" than the strong-minded, talkactive and energetic Chinese (especially Manchu). People from Shanghai were quieter and kind of more sensitive and mannered though.
Koreans have squarer jaws and overall flatter faces and smaller eyes than Japanese. If you take the plane from Tokyo to Seoul, the difference is striking. I believe that the people selected in the test above were all Americans or Canadians so they have lost a lot of their original characteristic. |
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Currently, UNICEF is holding an International Symposium on Trafficking of Children in Tokyo.
Asia's sex trade is 'slavery'
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Is this sponsored by Nova or what? wheres the dotted line?!!
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The asian sexual slavery is old and out of date...
... the new trend in Japan is to enslave the eastern europeans. |
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Russian girl Olesya in Tokyo - hostess or... ???
Hello,
please help me to know who is my loved girl... He worked in Tokyo as hostess (she said so, but I do not belive it). Her name is Olesya... May be someone know the truth about her? Thank you in advance. Deniss |
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Re: Russian girl Olesya in Tokyo - hostess or... ???
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The sex slave thing is true, I have seen it first hand. And they're not working in bars talking to business men.
There is a "strip club" in Hachinohe Japan and another in Aomori where every week you will find a different set of columbian "dancers" All with the same story if you talk to them. They were promised a career if they moved to Japan, had their passports taken from them and have to "work" to get them back. There are more clubs like this around Japan and the women move from one to the next every week. You pay 6000 yen and you can take them in the back and have sex with them. In some clubs it's free if you do it on stage in front of everyone. No I'm not making this up. It's really sad and disgusting. These women are forced into sexual slavery and for some reason no one is doing anything about it. |
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There are many thousand young Russian and Ukrainian girls working as " hostesses or sex providers " in Japan and Taiwan plus S Korea.
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