A Thai woman in Kanagawa Prefecture has been arrested on suspicion of selling a teenage Thai girl to a woman who manages prostitutes, and a Japanese man in Tokyo was taken into custody for introducing the girl to another man for purposes of solicitation, police said Monday.
Phinkaew Krissanee, 24, a nightclub hostess, and Kiyoshi Shiratori, 65, a funeral home employee in Hino, western Tokyo, were arrested for allegedly violating the law banning child prostitution and pornography, police said.
The arrests mark the first crackdown on the trafficking of a foreign girl, police said.