Japan is a major hub of sex trafficking

• According to the U.S. State Department, human trafficking is one of the greatest human rights challenges of this century, both in the United States and around the world.
• Nearly 7,000 Nepali girls as young as nine years old are sold every year into India’s red-light district—or 200,000 in the last decade. Ten thousand children between the ages of six and 14 are in Sri Lanka brothels
• Sex traffickers often recruit children because not only are children are more unsuspecting and vulnerable than adults, but there is also a high market demand for young victims. Traffickers target victims on the telephone, on the Internet, through friends, at the mall, and in after-school programs
• The Sunday Telegraph in the U.K. reports that hundreds of children as young as six are brought to the U.K. as slaves each year
• Many times, if a sex slave is arrested, she is imprisoned while her trafficker is able to buy his way out of trouble