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Officials target trafficking of women
April 6, 2004
Government officials held their first meeting Monday to reinforce cooperation
to prevent cases of women from abroad being trafficked into Japan and forced to
work in the sex industry.
Officials at the bureau-chief level from the National Police Agency, the
Justice Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, and the Health, Labor and Welfare
Ministry held their forum at the Cabinet Office, officials said.
The forum comes against the backdrop of a U.S. report on human trafficking
issued last June that labeled Japan as the worst industrialized country in
terms of measures to prevent the trafficking of women.
The NPA issued a report last month that it has uncovered 83 cases of women who
were trafficked into Japan and forced to work in the sex industry in 2003, up
28 from the previous year.
Forty-three were from Colombia, 21 from Thailand and 12 from Taiwan, the NPA
said. Human rights groups and researchers estimate, however, that thousands of
women, mostly from poor parts of Asia, are trafficked into Japan every year and
forced to work in the sex industry.
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