Comments on: More apologies

By: M-Bone

M-Bone — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:35:15 +0000

Canada has just seen a sex slavery / human trafficking bust in the past week and the number of Canadians arrested in connection with pedophile “tourism” and child porn in the last year has been truly shocking.

By: Aceface

Aceface — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:30:16 +0000

This just in from The Marmot Hole.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5457762.html

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:54:25 +0000

Oh yeah. Sex slavery of foreign women happens in every developed country in the world. And while it’s true that in many (but far from all) cases the women had known what they were in for, they are still often abused, enslaved, and forced to engage in prostitution without even the pay they had initially been promised. Standard practice is for their “boss” to take their passport away to make it harder for them to escape or ask for help. Japan, Korea, USA, Europe.

Very, very slightly off-topic, I recently heard a very good report on a case of industrial labor slavery that was prosecuted fairly recently. First half of the 11.30.2007 episode of the radio show This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.com/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1220

And let’s not forget about the horrible things that go on in Saipan, which is US territory-so products made there are labeled “Made in USA”-but strangely exempt from American laws and regulations.

By: Aceface

Aceface — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:44:01 +0000

What make thing more complicates is this sort of things still happening in Korea and Japan,you know.

I always see a wiseguys or two on a plane to Mongolia everytime I go back.
Needless to say they are involved in trafficking of women to “Mongolian Pubs”(yes they exist.)A Korean national was busted for violation of Mongolian law for doing just that,and he was recruiting women to work in Japan.I believe this “Korean” is probably a Zainichi member of Yakuza.

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:36:44 +0000

”So far none to my knowledge.”
Well, considering the girls were themselves teenagers and are now in their 80s and 90s, I think it’s pretty safe to assume that any adults involved are long dead.

By: Aceface

Aceface — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:35:11 +0000

“I haven’t seen “Memoirs.” Are you referring to how the fact that girls in Japan were often sold into prostitution meant that the law was “just a piece of paper” ?”

Yes.

I think there was a case that chief of staffs of Impeial army had recieved a letter from office of governor general of Korea that some of the brokers were notorious kidnappers in the colony and that invetigation by the police is underway.So army put up a stricter measures on selecting the recruiters.

“Does anyone know if any of the local “comfort woman” brokers/recruiters were ever prosecuted by the post-colonial governments of the countries Japan had occupied?”

So far none to my knowledge.

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:18:54 +0000

Just occurred to me. Does anyone know if any of the local “comfort woman” brokers/recruiters were ever prosecuted by the post-colonial governments of the countries Japan had occupied?

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:17:47 +0000

I haven’t seen “Memoirs.” Are you referring to how the fact that girls in Japan were often sold into prostitution meant that the law was “just a piece of paper” ?

BTW Curzon, I’m impressed you pulled out the Japanese criminal code.

By: Aceface

Aceface — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:15:23 +0000

C’mon Curz,You’ve seen “Memoir of Geisha”.that was just a piece of paper.

By: Curzon

Curzon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:01:51 +0000

“When a young girl is handed over to a prostitute-broker in exchange for money by her family, I’m not sure what you can call that besides sex-slavery/human-trafficking.”

And that’s something that has been subject to serious punishment under the Volume 2, Chapter 33 of the Criminal Code of Japan (articles 224-229) since 明治４０年...

MF, your response here would be appreciated:
http://cominganarchy.com/2008/01/15/ditto/#comment-381598