KOBE -- A volunteer probation officer and court interpreter in Kobe has begun a telephone consultation service for foreign women trafficked to Japan and forced into prostitution.
Yukiko Oishi will lend both a sympathetic ear and practical advice to such women, mainly Asian women in western Japan, up to and including assisting them with finding legal representation.
Oishi, a court interpreter in the Kansai region and volunteer probation officer for the city of Kobe, has been involved in domestic educational issues for four decades. She also owns her own English school.