With a weakening currency and rising poverty, Japan’s capital Tokyo has become the new hub for “sex tourism”, reported The Star.
Secretary general of the Liaison Council Protecting Youths (Seiboren), Yoshihide Tanaka, told This Week in Asia, “Japan has become a poor country.”
The organisation has noted a significant increase in the number of foreigners of all races, but especially Chinese men, who have started visiting the city for its sex industry after post-pandemic travel restrictions were eased.
The phenomenon is coupled with a rise in teenagers and women in their early twenties turning to the sex industry to survive, along with an increase…
