Tokyo, Japan, Japan
See above. In 2005, this was the first arrest under a new law which Japan introduced in June to combat human trafficking. The Metropolitan Police Department stated this case was only the tip of the iceburg and planned to use recent amendments to the Penal Code, which criminalized human trafficking, to tighten its crackdown on such brokers. At the time the MPD determined that at least 77 foreign women found in 2004 to have been forced into prostitution were victims of trafficking, 48 of whom were from Thailand. Police were only able to take action on 23 brokers who introduced girls to pimps.
Location
Japan · Tokyo, Japan · 2005 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
The teenage girl, 13 at the time she was sold in 2002, was arrested in 2004 on suspicion of illegally staying in Japan after her visa expired. She was deported in June. The girl says she was forced to provide sex to 200 men since entering Japan in 2002.
Unknown, as she was deported to Thailand.
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