With the yen so cheap and inflation relatively low, the hordes of tourists flocking to Japan today enjoy a great time in the country. On the other hand, many people able to work abroad are doing so to earn more money than they can get in Japan. This includes sex workers, who have recently turned to places like Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Dubai, the United States, and Southeast Asia.
Legal website Bengoshi JP recently focused on the phenomenon of Japanese migrant sex workers, interviewing two examples of women with experience of working overseas.
One woman has been to Manila twice, Taiwan ...
Korean brokers of Japanese prostitutions have been sentenced by a court in Seoul.
According to Korea Wave, the Supreme Court of Korea dismissed the appeal of two Korean brokers on April 25, upholding the original ruling against the men of prison sentences of two years and one year and eight months.
Between November 2023 and May 2024, the pair helped approximately 80 Japanese women enter South Korea and arranged for them to become prostitutes in Seoul and Gyeonggi. Based in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, they advertised on a website under the name "Girls of the Archipelago," recruiting ...
The stories about the victims of male hosts' exploitation seem to become more sensational week by week.
Last week, we wrote about the schoolgirl who was allowed to build up a huge bill at a host club and had to prostitute herself to pay off her debt.
Now comes a story in which this latest moral panic seems to dovetail with another recent trend: the tales of Japanese women going abroad to earn money as sex workers and take advantage of the weak yen.
This has become so common that a crackdown has started in the United States.
China, Hong Kong, and Macau remain popular destinations, however ...
With the yen cheap, local wages stagnant, and the media full of stories of young Japanese people on working holiday visas in Australia earning lots of money, is it any wonder that some people thinking going abroad is a quick and easy way to make a fortune?
And that includes sex workers.
As we have previously reported, Hong Kong has cracked down on Japanese porn stars traveling to the country to work as prostitutes, where they receive higher fees and are marketed as a AV celebrities.
In the United States, border officials will stop young women if they appear to be entering the country for ...
One of the bigger and somewhat stranger media stories of the last few days in Japan has been the case of a influencer from Osaka who was denied entry to Hawaii.
Considering the millions of tourists who enter Hawaii annually -- many of them from Japan -- it might seem like an odd story.
The border officer became suspicious of Karen Okajima because she had written she was an office worker on her ESTA immigration form but seemed to have a lot of clothing in her luggage for someone traveling alone.
The 32-year-old says she was taken to a private room and questioned for a long time. She ...
One of the lesser-known effects of the coronavirus pandemic (or at least, the recent economic situation caused by multiple factors) is that it has led to an influx of Japanese sex workers in Kabukicho going abroad to earn better money.
According to recent articles in the magazine Friday (March 31 and April 7 issues), the United States used to be a popular destination among Japanese prostitutes, but increased checks at immigration control -- including apparently checking smartphone pics to see if they contain lingerie-clad selfies -- have prompted sex workers to seek out alternative ...
