In early January at about 8 p.m., a 17-year-old who works at Naniwa de Sanpo (A Walk in Naniwa) in Osaka's Namba district stands outside a convenience store with a luxury bag slung across her shoulder. Moments later, a man in a suit who appears ...
When senior bureaucrats visited the remote Thai province where local official Boonyarit Nipavanit worked, the routine was often the same: welcome them with the finest food and drink and then bring out the teen girls, often referred to as "dessert." The tradition — known by ...
Fifty people were rescued from human traffickers in Japan in 2016, with Japanese nationals making up half of the victims, a government report showed Tuesday. Of the 50, 13 were aged 17 or younger, according to the annual report approved by the government. "We need to ...
Hundreds of women were brought from Thailand to the U.S. and forced to be "modern day sex slaves," according to an indictment unsealed Thursday that charges high-level members of what authorities called a sophisticated sex-trafficking ring that concealed millions of dollars in earnings. The indictment ...
A Thai police probe into a gang that allegedly procured teenage sex slaves has ensnared at least four officers, investigators said Monday, the latest scandal to engulf a force with an already poor reputation. Revelations of a child sex ring first emerged last week when ...
Li Nang, a young migrant worker wearing hot pants and high heels, stood before the statue of a gilt goddess garlanded with marigolds and fairy lights in Kuala Lumpur as she prayed for good business — and her own safety. Malaysia's underground community of undocumented ...
Commencing with the death of Emperor Taisho on Christmas Day, 1926, the Showa Era ran for 62 years and two weeks, ending with the death of Emperor Hirohito (posthumously referred to as Emperor Showa) at the age of 87 on Jan. 7, 1989. Thanks to ...
As she smiles at customers and makes small talk with regulars in a Hong Kong bar, Kat's every move is being watched by an older woman, a pimp who answers to the name "Mama-san." The 23-year-old from the Philippines has been forced to sell sex ...
Sex worker and law graduate Laura Lee is due to appear before Northern Ireland's High Court on Monday to challenge a law making it illegal to pay for sex. Northern Ireland criminalized the purchase of sex in 2015 — the first part of the U.K. ...
Hawaiian lawmakers are considering decriminalizing prostitution with a bill that would also legalize buying sex and acting as a pimp. The proposal also would end a state law that says police officers cannot have sex with prostitutes in the course of investigations. Transgender activist Tracy Ryan ...
Two Japanese men and a Thai woman were arrested Thursday for allegedly forcing seven Cambodian women to work in hostess bars in Gunma Prefecture last year, police said. Hostess bar operator Hisao Watanabe, 44, and another Japanese suspect have admitted to violating the immigration law, ...
