
National / Social Issues Aug 17, 2016
Sex trade a shaky safety net for Japan's working-poor women
by Tomohiro Osaki
For the past six years, 47-year-old single mother Kasumi Endo has lived a double life. On weekdays, she works all day as a temp-staff office worker to raise her teenage daughter. But with wages hardly sufficient to keep the household afloat, Endo (not her real ...