Women warned about fake `job in Japan' ads
CNA , TOKYO
Monday, Dec 19, 2005,Page 2
Advertising Taiwanese women must be extremely cautious with ads in
newspapers touting job opportunities in Japan, many of which are
traps set by human traffickers, diplomats from Taiwan have
warned.
According to officials of the Taipei Economic and Cultural
Representative Office, over the past three years, police in Taiwan
have rescued a total of 100 women, 99 from Taiwan and one from
Macau who fell victim to human smugglers and were forced into
prostitution across Japan.
The youngest from Taiwan was 19, while the oldest was 53, with many
of the women in their thirties, the officials said.
Police investigations in the two countries showed that many of the
Taiwanese women were lured to Japan by false job ads in Taiwanese
newspapers.
The police have found that more and more gangsters and
document-forgery rings are increasingly involved in luring
Taiwanese women to work in the sex trade in Japan.
A group of human traffickers from Japan were arrested by police in
October in Chiba Prefecture, the official said.
The three smuggling groups were all connected to gangsters or
document counterfeiting organizations, the officials said.
Most of the Taiwanese women tricked into going to Japan were
usually forced to work as prostitutes, and their passports were
taken away upon their arrival in Japan by the smugglers, who keep
tight control of the women, the officials said.
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