Shihoko Fujiwara, chief of Polaris Project Japan, has released the text message calling for help from a Korean female victim of human trafficking at a press conference in Tokyo, June 20. Polaris Project Japan is nonprofit organization to address human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Japan.
“I’m dizzy because bleeding too much. Personal loan. Shop didn’t understand my word,” she said in the message unveiled by Fujiwara.
The woman was forced to do visiting sex, called “delivery health” in Japan, in downtown Tokyo to pay accumulating debt although she came to Japan because of the broker who said, “It’s an easy way to make money.”
When the Korean victim was rescued, she could not get out of bed because she had eaten nothing and lost a lot of blood for pelvic peritonitis, an inflammation of the thin tissue that covers the abdominal organ.
Fujiwara said Koreans are major victims in human trafficking among foreigners contacting a hotline, which account for 29 percent.