Cambodian women saved from sex work
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SEVEN Cambodian women have been rescued from a restaurant in Japan where they were allegedly forced into sex work after a victim made a desperate Facebook plea for help, an official said yesterday.
The women, who are in their 20s, were lured to work at the restaurant in central Honshu island in November with promise of high wages by a Japanese owner who arranged visas and airfares for the them, the Cambodian foreign ministry said in a statement.
“But (he) threatened and forced the victims to have sex with guests at the restaurant and did not pay them salaries,” the statement said.
Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry said the women were rescued in mid-December after a victim wrote a plea for help on the Facebook page of the Cambodian embassy in Japan.
The authorities in Gunma prefecture, west of Tokyo, were then alerted.
Six of the women are now staying at the embassy in Tokyo awaiting repatriation today while the seventh victim was sent home late last month for health reasons.
Cambodian officials did not say if the restaurant owner was arrested or faced any charges.
Japan has long been a country for Southeast Asian women seeking higher wages who often find themselves forced into sex work or indentured labor.
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