http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507140336.html
"They have been lied to, abused and trapped in the seedy sex industry where defiance is punishable by gang-rapes. And until recently, these foreign women were viewed as lawbreakers, not victims. Yet the problem of human trafficking continues on a wide scale in Japan, according to a report from nongovernmental organization Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons (JNATIP). "
