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Nippon Lao Chio drooling over 20s XXR Host at Club, end up in debt, need to sell herself to clear debt, Boss Glockman Kym?

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She thought she found love in a Japanese host club. Then the bills ballooned – and she was coerced into sex work​

Jessie Yeung, Hanako Montgomery and Junko Ogura, CNN
Sat, 8 June 2024 at 6:13 pm SGT8-min read


Yu felt a rush of excitement as she walked into his bar for the first time – eager to meet the charming young host she’d been following for years online.

On that cold January night last year, they chatted over champagne – the first of many meetings that would have Yu fast falling in love.

Yu, 41, a clinician and divorced mother of two, soon began spending every spare minute with him at the bar in Tokyo’s main red-light district, dropping thousands of dollars on heavily marked-up alcohol.
 
In return, he showered Yu with attention and small gifts, celebrating her birthday with her and even promising to buy her a ring.

“He said, ‘You are my girlfriend,’” said Yu, who CNN is identifying by a pseudonym to protect her privacy. “I believed him.”

Yu says the host, handsome and in his 20s, encouraged her to run up a bar tab that quickly spiraled out of control.

Then, her money ran out – and everything changed.
 
With no way for Yu to pay the 25 million yen (about $165,000) she owed to the bar, he said he would take care of the debt. But now she would have to repay him – with sex work the only way to raise the cash.

Yu is one of hundreds of women coerced to sell their bodies after frequenting Japan’s so-called “host clubs,” experts told CNN.

There are more than 300 of these venues in Tokyo’s neon-lit Kabukicho district, offering male companionship to lonely women.

Though not all hosts exploit their female clients, authorities say some clubs are linked to organized crime, while activists say loose regulation of the industry has allowed abuse to fester.

Under current laws, anybody over the age of 18 can enter the clubs, and efforts by lawmakers to introduce stronger protections have so far failed.

Cases of extreme debt, exploitation and sex trafficking surged after Covid restrictions were lifted in 2023, activists say, with women flocking to host clubs following several years of business closures and isolation.
 
Last year, Tokyo police arrested 140 people for alleged prostitution in Kabukicho, according to public broadcaster NHK – a threefold increase from the previous year. Of those detained, 40% told police they were soliciting to repay debts run up at host clubs, NHK reported.

With such cases mounting, authorities set up helplines for victims and arrested hosts for allegedly coercing indebted customers into sex work.

In December, Tokyo police inspected 176 host clubs in Kabukicho, NHK reported – finding regulatory violations in 75% of the venues, mainly for not clearly displaying the price of alcohol and for placing menus out of sight.

“It’s a romance scam, basically,” said Ayaka Shiomura, a member of Japan’s upper house of parliament, who has unsuccessfully pushed for better safeguards against exploitative host clubs.

“Some of these women are brainwashed into thinking they’re dating these hosts. It’s a vicious, bad cycle.”
 

The price of love​

For many victims, that cycle begins online, especially on social media – where hosts built their fanbase when pandemic restrictions forced their clubs to close.

Mikami Rui, 28, has worked as a host for the past 10 years – and says for much of his career, the clubs weren’t very well known. But “awareness is spreading in Japan” because of platforms like Instagram, TikTok and X, where hosts are “working very hard to become more visible,” he said.

While he insists he has never forced a customer into sex work, he admits to previously persuading women to spend far beyond their means.

Now, he claims, “I entertain women without pressuring them for money … I stick to what they can afford.”
 
Often, hosts target vulnerable young women, draining them of their savings and then coercing them into sex work to repay their bar debts, Gen said.

Yu had watched the host’s YouTube videos for two years before going to his club – that first meeting laying the groundwork for a one-sided relationship of false promises.

After that night, he reached out asking to see her again – so Yu visited the club once more. Soon, he was treating her at restaurants and hookah bars, paying her special attention “over other girls,” she said. He talked about going to the places she wanted to visit, like Disneyland or Japan’s popular island destination Okinawa.

This kind of special attention is why victims – some as young as 18 – often genuinely believe the hosts are their boyfriends, said Shiomura, the national assembly member.
 
Ish this Real Agent G life story as well?

She trick by Hakka Cantonese Whore Son at KTV before?
 
Hello...Agent G, where are u de woh?
 
Once again strengthen my belief that women can never ever be in the position of managing any money. The only money she can have is her weekly allowance from me.
 
That can explain why so many 40road aunties come out to make Nippon Documemtary ....really 极品鲍鱼
 
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