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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, CNNSat, 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.