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Are you uninterested in Japan because it is so\u00a0far east? Well,\u00a0an\u00a0important\u00a0friendship between Japan and the US has been maintained since the San Francisco Peace Treaty,\u00a0so it is worth taking a look at what your Eastern\u00a0‘friend’ is doing.<\/p>\n
During class discussion,\u00a0people were saying that slavery is a huge problem in the US –according to the Global Slavery Index, the estimated enslaved population in the US is 60,100 out of the total population of 318.9 million. In Japan, the estimated enslaved population is 237,500 out of the total population of 127.3 million. It is four times worse than the US. What is wrong with the\u00a0country?<\/p>\n
Japan is the only G8 country that is not a member of the Trafficking Protocol (UN TIP Protocol) adopted by the United Nations in 2000, which defines human trafficking and the measures that need to be taken against it.<\/p>\n
Much of the enslaved population in Japan are\u00a0abused as sex slaves, and my assumption here is many of them are children. Some possible reasons why Japan has so many child sex slaves can be related to\u00a0Japanese society\u2019s tolerance toward child pornography. In most\u00a0countries around the globe, child\u00a0porn is rigidly restricted. However, in Japan child\u00a0porn animations are permitted because some consider it a\u00a0part of Japanese culture, which\u00a0used to have such a time that it was normal for old men to have those\u00a0relationships with kids (although that was\u00a01000 years ago or more).<\/p>\n
Animation is also\u00a0a huge business in Japan that can be exported abroad. This cultural aspect allows people to excuse their abnormal propensity, and as a result this encourages traffickers to abuse more children as sex laborers.<\/p>\n
Although this cannot be the only reason why Japan has so many slaves, this is one of the ways to think about the\u00a0issue.<\/p>\n
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