Last Kabukicho Update

Here's the thing, the painful truth of it all, there is a reason the UN and the US designate Japan as just meeting the bare minimum for fighting human trafficking: they don't see it as a real issue.

Human trafficking and sex slavery is technically not illegal here. Just like underage porn is not really illegal. I have seen porn of kindergartens. Not adults or teens wearing kindergarten uniforms (but yes that is 100% a thing too) but actual drawings of people made to look as correct to a 4/5 year old girl as possible. And people buy it. The underage porn is the higher market. But, hey, what's age when the national law of consent is 13?

Yeah, yeah, prefectural laws usually raise it to 20, but that does not change that the national--again, national--law of consent is 13. And because women here are still seen more as... others, this law does little boys no favors either. Oh, yes, I know, the law for homosexual relations says they need to be 18 to consent. It also says they can be fired everyone outside of the Tokyo area.

Relating this back to Kabukicho, because women are others and because of the law of consent and porn in this country, there is no movement on sex trafficking. Gaijin are also 'others'. The crackdowns in Kabukicho focus on making sure the junior high fetish clubs stay to a minimum. Again, not high school, but junior high.

And so, to end my rant of how there is absolutely no progress in just getting a waitress or two out of forced sexual labor, I've started the process for taking the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT). I need to try to get the test scheduled on my day off in 5 weeks. If I pass, I have to go to Washington in March for an interview. I'd need to break my contract here, but honestly, the work culture and a bunch of stuff regarding other parts of the culture is plain awful. If I end up a FSO, my first order of business will be going after the sex trade in Kabukicho. You cannot be part of the UN and ignore something like that.