Japan sex industry ensnares Latin women
Jamie:
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- At least 1,700 women from Latin America and the Caribbean are lured each year into sexual slavery in Japan's huge illicit sex industry, according to a new report.A team of researchers hired by the Organization of American States found that most of the women come from Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru.The team of researchers -- led by Phillip Linderman, an expert on loan from the U.S. State Department -- presented the "Rapid Assessment Report" to an international seminar on human trafficking sponsored by Peru's Foreign Ministry on Friday.The OAS analysis was culled from interviews with presumed victims, Japanese immigration records and crime data.The 37-page report estimated tens of thousands of undocumented foreign women in Japan, mostly from other Asian countries, are exploited by crime organizations, like Yakuza, Japan's second-largest crime syndicate.Japan's National Police Agency estimates the sex trade industry there to be worth $83 billion a year Linderman said governments on both sides of the Pacific paid little attention to the problem until recently.The Colombian Embassy in Japan stood out, aggressively working to identify and assist the estimated 4,000 Colombians it believes are human trafficking victims.But Linderman said the figures in his report probably represent only a percentage of trafficking victims, particularly from other Latin American countries like Peru, which is just starting to tackle the issue."The ties between Japan and Peru are larger for historical reasons, for migratory reasons, for all kinds of reasons, than they are between Colombia and Japan. And it's our position right now in the preliminary study that there are many more victims here," he told The Associated Press.He said a typical trafficking scenario is that of Irene Oblitas, a Peruvian who told her story last year to her country's media. She said that in 1998 she boarded a plane with three Japanese businessmen who had promised her a job in a plastics factory.When she arrived she was raped by all three men and sold to a Yakuza organized crime boss, who branded her across the chest with a 6-inch (15-centimeter) rose tattoo. He forced her to provide sexual services to up to 40 clients a day, she said.She escaped after eight months with the help of other Peruvian expatriates, according to the Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington."The scenario of Oblitas' case unfortunately seems to be a typical one," Linderman said.Oblitas' case was not mentioned in the OAS report. Human rights organizations say she later fled to a neighboring South American country, fearing reprisals after she started receiving death threats.Japan came under mounting international pressure last year after it was downgraded in the U.S. State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report. It became the only industrialized, developed nation to be placed on a special "watch list" of countries on the verge of falling into the report's lowest category, the OAS study noted.In response "the government of Japan announced a new national plan to combat human trafficking in December 2004," the OAS report continued.Chieko Tatsumi, of the International Organized Crime Division in Japan's Foreign Ministry, came to Lima to attend the seminar and said her government launched an aggressive public ad campaign to raise awareness about human trafficking."I think the Japanese people are paying more attention to these issues," she said.But she and other Japanese officials disagreed with the OAS report's assertion that sexual trafficking from Latin America and the Caribbean is a much larger problem than the initial figures indicate. The full study will not be complete until later this year.
lapentier:
... in response to Japan sex industry ensnares Latin women, posted by Jamie on Apr 30, 2005
My guess is that 95% of this problem occurs in the "entertainment" industry in Japan, and very rarely involves latinas. However, if a girl has been to Japan and worked as an "entertainer" or "singer", I would be very careful. I have seen some the houses in the Philippines built by these balikbayan "entertainers" from Japan; they were more ritzy than anything being built by balikbayans from America...As for purpose of this article, it's hard to say. Given the prevalent loose attitudes found in parts of Japan culture, the writer of the original 37 page paper may be truly upset about the image human trafficking is giving Japan in the world, or he or she may just be upset about competition coming in from a new location. Either way, my gut feeling is that there may be a few isolated cases of slavery, after all where there are couple hundred million people, you are going to have one or more occurrences of just about anything. However, casting morals and ethics aside, what is described in the article is not likely on the basis that it is more expensive and more risky than obtaining the willing service of the large numbers of foreigners already available in country.What concerns me more about this article is the poor journalism and lack of research combined with an underlying inference of class abuse of station. The writer of the article is accusing "Japanese" of forced, multiple rape--a very serious crime IN JAPAN as well as Latin America--with only a reference to an unnamed paper and one piece of anecdotal evidence. The next, logical step would be to try to infer that Americans with latina or asian wives REALLY went there to obtain something other than a real spouse.Keep your eye on these stories...Mark
Jamie:
... in response to Japan sex industry ensnares Latin women, posted by Jamie on Apr 30, 2005
I don’t know how big this problem really is but they certainly don’t provide any facts or details to back up what they say.I would like to know how they estimate the sex trade industry at $83 billion just in Japan? This seems impossible if there talking dollars.How many presumed victims were interviewed and do they consider women who voluntarily do this victims?How did they estimate 4,000 Colombian women? “40 clients a day” That would be 4 an hour for 10 hours a day. The guy would only have 15 minutes which seems like a short secession. What kind of business would be able to pull in 40 guys per woman? And with that 83 billion figure they sure can’t be paying small change. Seems like an exaggeration. You would think the journalist would ask these questions and provide answers but they only give you one testimonial.Engage the Exotic - Latin Women
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Heat:
... in response to My comments, posted by Jamie on Apr 30, 2005
Which makes thes girls out to be victims. Every girl goes to make money as a hooker. Slaves my ass.When the use the word slaves it discounts real slavery practiced by the muslums and Africans today. That is real slavery. This is a project by a bunch of control freaks who want to outlaw prostitution.
Pete E:
... in response to Total bullshit, posted by Heat on Apr 30, 2005
For every case like the one mentioned above there are probably 100 girls who go in to it out of choice.
So if they could just concentrate on actual cases of forced servitude like the one above,if it is even totally true,we would be OK.But of course there is this push by feminists and other whiners to eliminate prostitution.
I have seen these documentaries about Thailand where the allege similar things but basically given the choice the girls would rather hook than work and get paid LOTS more doing it.
I have met lots of hookers in Colombia,most of them clients of someone other than myself.I consider none of them a victim.Its hard to go back to WORKING after such EASY MONEY.The biggest problem most of them have is finding guys who will pay up.I suspect some of these 100,000 peso hookers get bought by Colombians for 10 cents on the dollar sometimes.Which is why they like to see a gringo headed their way.Nothing is probably as flexible as the price the get to charge based on the situation.
If it wasn't for laws and social stigma lots more US
women would be doing it.
How did the US get so purist about this?Does it go back to Calvinist thinking where anything pleasurable was considered sinfull?And catholic type thinking that sex is only for procreation,or at least any pleasure secondary.Funny ,most catholic countries have very obvious prostitution,like Colombia.Kind of this big gap between supposed beliefs and actual lifestyle.Pete
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