Posted on 04/29/2005 10:53:08 PM PDT by LouAvul
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.
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...doing jobs Japanese women won't do...
Ah, Japan. The Hello Kitty Land of Not Quite Right. Oh, the inanity. Oh, the Japanity.
Thank you...I had a sister who spent three months in Japan teaching English before she fled home in horror at what she had seen! A sick, sick country.
I think the Germans could give them a run for their money, especially when it comes to sex and popular culture.
Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
" been going on for years."
All the more reason it should have been stopped.
If it weren't for the Pacific ocean, Japan would be awash in illegal Mexican immigrants to (ahem) 'feed the need'.
I wonder how accurate an assesment one can make after only three months. I've lived in Tokyo for the past two years. Not sick at all. No panhandlers, hardly any grafitti, teenagers are fairly respectul, low crime rate, virtually no theft. I love it here.
Must add that another woman I know moved to Japan (also to teach English) and loves it for the same reason that you do. My sister was extremely disturbed by the Japanese attitude towards women (violent pornography sold in grocery stores, used panties sold in train-station vending machines, women dressed like little girls, etc.)
" Must add that another woman I know moved to Japan (also to teach English) and loves it for the same reason that you do. My sister was extremely disturbed by the Japanese attitude towards women (violent pornography sold in grocery stores, used panties sold in train-station vending machines, women dressed like little girls, etc.)"
I've been teaching here for 19 years ...Has always been a love/hate relationship ...The place is full of pervs for sure ...And the vast majority of women under the age of 35 are goofy ...It's still a man's world over here , but it is changing , albeit at a snail's pace ...Crime/murder way up since I arrived in '85 ...but still lower than the U.S...I live in the Kumamoto countryside now , where crime is virtually non-existent . A peaceful existence ...Biggest threat to our lives comes from North Korea ...
My life experience supports that: I have lived in NYC and Las Vegas and both attract a fair share of Japanese folks. Younger Japanese women are fairly goofy: they tend to get very nervous (and even giggly) when in an elevator with a man, for example. It's kind of an exaggerated nervous girlishness, I think.
Then again, maybe it's just personal to me - just my experience! :-)
and that problem might be solved shortly. doing jobs japanese won't do. How convenient.
We have had numerous japanese students stay with us during summer months. ALL the girls are that way. They are kept quite innocent and tend to act like little grammar school children.
Just cultural. However, they all write english. speak very little, at least from what I have seen.
Most male counterparts smoke and hang with their buddies.
you beat me to it, you meanie!
It's an odd culture by our standards: it is like a carnival funhouse mirror reflection of our own culture. Like they took a lot of our stuff, mised it with there stuff, and got something genuinely odd as a result.
It never bothered me, though. I always found it odd (and offputting) but it's just a headscratcher to me. Nothing more, nothing less.
I do want to visit Japan someday, it's on my list of 'things to do.'
" Most male counterparts smoke and hang with their buddies."
More and more Japanese women are shunning marriage , at least to a Japanese man ...They've seen what their mothers have had to endure want no part of it ...A friend in the U.K. just the other day sent me a newspaper article about single Japanese professional women invading the U.K.( and NY ) in search of a husband . These dating agencies in England are charging $ 7500 for introductions ! "
Please add my the Japan Ping list, thank you.
LOL - sorry
yah, well... your phrasing was better than what I was planning when I saw the title. well done.
"horror at what she had seen! A sick, sick country."
And what was it she saw? I spent 7.5 months there over a 10 year period and thought it was wonderful, though I felt sorry for the locals, very regimented society. It seems to me regimented societies blow off steam sexually so a flourishing sex trade doesn't surprise me, but human trafficing allegations do to some extent.
Go boom boom long time.
Hugh Betcha!
CC, Sushiman's right. You can get yourself all worked up over the negative aspects of Japan and really hate it (sexual perversions, drunken businessmen, smokers, revisionist historians, etc), or you can instead focus on the better aspects and have a really good time there (low crime, generally polite and helpful populace, convenience in the crowdedness, many things to eat see and do, etc).
I wish I could own a gun, though. Just for fun...
Which country has perverts living next door, KIDNAPPING, RAPING, MURDERING little kids?...Then your courts let them go to do more of the same?!
What?
No pictures??
LOL!!!!! Same in America!!
The Japanese are the most dynamic people on earth...next to the Americans.
Of course, we could just choose to be led by a cult of perverts, who happen to hate Jews and delight in goose-stepping through bucolic French villages every few decades.............
Nonetheless, Germany is over there and we do have this hard won right to speak freely. So........
OH really!
1) Massacre of thousands of native peoples by US army in 1800's. Land/possesions of Indians stolen by US goverenment policy. Indians forced to move to gov mandated concentration camps where many live in squaler even today.
2) Blacks (men, women, children) kidnapped from their homes forced aboard ships, then bought/sold by US citizens 1700-1860's.
3) Laws prohibiting blacks/jews from buying/living in certain communities. Entire black communities burned out by whites, one in Florida and the other in Tulsa OK during the first part of the 20th century.
4) War of aggression (Spanish American War). Where the cause for war was the trumpted up sinking of the battleship Maine. Recent information says the explosion on the Maine might have have been an accident or worse, intentionally done to get the US public behind Washington's expansion dreams.
5) US murder toll of unborn children (abortion)- estmated at 42 million. This includes US gov sanctioned partial-birth abortion. Where a child is allow to come to full term, the child is brought thru the birth cannal, when it's head is exposed the executioner (DOCTOR) stabs the child in the base of the head and suctions the brain out.
6) Terri Schivo, gov mandated execution of citizen not guilty of any crime and what did YOU do to stop her death? If you were arrested trying to stop her death, my hat's off to you. However, if you did nothing, then you're no better that all those Germans during 1939-1945 saying, I didn't know!
7)As for perverts in the GOV, you've got to be kidding Thumper1960. Do I have to remind you of the serial RAPEST Bill Clinton. Then there's Barney Fwank, Ted Kennedy and on and on!
So, now YANKEE DOODLE it seems the ice is thin for both of our countries.
Hard for a Japanese woman to be a gaijin prostitute.
What's your point, really?
Apparently, Hermann is hypersensitive.
Don't be deceived...it's an act many put on,esp. when around white males.
Don't take it personally. I watched German tv while in Europe and couldn't believe the commercials that were on late at night on regular tv. Plus it's no secret to anyone that some fat,middle aged Germans go to select asian countries for young nubile action. My sister saw lots of them in Thailand.
I always found it hard to take seriously and figured it had to be an act or just exaggerated so much as to come off as absurd (by western standards). I never found the act particularly appealing.
You would not be the first man who finds the whole put-on unappealing. Some guys eat it all up, esp. the guys my sister dormed with when she did her semester abroad there.
I met some nice folks in Germany, but they are kinda perverted, even more so than the good ol' US of A.
Smacked a nerve there, fer sure!
I wonder if Deutschland uber alles is playing somewhere in the background........hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........
Look in the mirror, the point is on the top of your head!
Here ia a hint
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES, SHOULDN'T THROW BRICKS
No, I just don't let arrogant, lard ass, hate mongers say whatever their one celled brain comes up with. Now go back to your Hillary C. porn collection and shutup!
I wonder if Deutschland uber alles is playing somewhere in the background........hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........
One of the voices in my head is always humming it!
People shilling for the country that perfected industrial murder shouldn't self-righteously spam the thread with a long list of American misdeeds when, the only things being discussed is the anecdotal experiences of the rest of the posters.
Hypersensitive twit.
People shilling for the country that perfected industrial murder shouldn't self-righteously spam the thread with a long list of American misdeeds when, the only things being discussed is the anecdotal experiences of the rest of the posters.
The headline of this thread had nothing about Germans/Germany and none of the following article mentioned anything about Germans/Germany. That is, until your first post exposed your hate Germans agenda. In fact, as I remember your first post there was nothing anecdotal about it. So logically speaking YOU don't belong here.
Hypersensitive twit.
Seems I hit a nerve here!
So, why don't you and that other German hater (Thumper1960) go back to Emailing each other pictures of your weeenies and stop whining when you get put in your place.
Are you a German hater too?
Have you seen the comedy routine of The Cable Guy, SouthPark, the BET cable channel? The Cable Guy says poop or turd every second word and the garbage on the other two makes you wonder if evolution in reverse is happening. I can't let this go by without mentioning JOCKO JACKSON with his private kiddie petting zoo (JOCKO does the petting).
Take the plank out of your eye before you comment on the splinter in someone else's eye.
There's no hatred for Germans here, Herrman.
We're not the ones who turned this thread towards rape, murder, and the abduction of children. That was all you.
Stop pulling your underwear up to your armpits.
Let's examine that rant.
Hateful words posted, there. Illogical insults. (one-celled brain) The brain is, of course, a multicellular organ. The authoritarian demand that an 'opponent' "shutup".
You certainly do have issues, buddy.
LOL
German hater, indeed!
ROTFLMAO
There's no hatred for Germans here, Herrman. We're not the ones who turned this thread towards rape, murder, and the abduction of children. That was all you.
This thread started with a CNN story about abduction of LATIN WOMEN AND THEIR RAPE, TORTURE BY A JAPANESSE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.... YOU, then added Post #6..... "I think the Germans could give them a run for their money, especially when it comes to sex and popular culture."
I suppose you added that out of love and admiration for all things German! Prior to your post #6, this thread had nothing to do with Germans! I could care less what you think about Germans, but your Hate Germans agenda is clear and obvious!
Stop pulling your underwear up to your armpits.
As long as there is a chance YOU OR YOUR MOOSLEM BROTHERHOOD might sneak up behind me, I'll keep my shorts HIGH AND TIGHT!
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