– Someone young women who seem to do nothing in a Park in the western part of Tokyo suggest that the huge Statue of Godzilla It is not the only attraction in the area for i foreign tourists.
With the faces illuminated by the cold light of theirs cell phoneswomen who flock to Okubo park I am proof that the sex tourism It is the dark side of the hectic nightlife of the neighborhood of Kabukicho. They are not here official databut just take two steps for the park to realize that more and more foreign men they go there after seeing the Video on Instagram and Tiktok.
The area near Kabukicho, where Godzilla roars And blow smoke Above a cinema, it has become a real tourist attraction and, tells a young woman, half of her clients They are foreigners.
“Since they don’t know how to communicate in Japanese, they write ‘how much does it cost?'” on theirs phones with a automatic translator»Explains one of them by telling that the men who attend theOkubo Park they usually come from South Koreafrom the China or from Taiwanbut also from North America and from theEurope.
Many of them have known what happens in the park thanks to Publishing videos on platforms like Tiktok or the Chinese Bilible. Many of these videos often come Register without consentsometimes live, and some collect hundreds of thousands of views. The girls claim to work for own accountwithout protectors. Bring customers to the neighbors Love Hotel and they pay on average by 15,000 to 30,000 yen (come on 100 to 200 dollars) the hour.
Arata Sakamotodirector of Rescue huba refuge created by a NGO For Okubo prostitutes. More and more women prostitute themselves because they need to earnwhile ten years ago it was not common to see Japanese women work as prostitutes on the street. But after the Covid-19 pandemic«Young women started selling sex a low prices».
According to Sakamoto they are exposed to «Risks for their physical and mental health, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, abortions. Some women are victims of abuse or come resumed without their consent“, Said” Sometimes i customers do not pay or the robbed».
In Japan The paid sex which provides for the penetration and in case they are the sex workers to face fines and even prison penisnot customers. For Sakamoto, «Establish legal consequences for customers“He would help to curb the question.