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Woman arrested for selling pornographic images of 4-year-old daughter

MIYAGI —

Police in Ogawaramachi, Miyagi Prefecture have arrested a 32-year-old woman for violating laws prohibiting underage prostitution and pornography after it came to light that she sold porn images of her daughter to a man in Hokkaido on
Oct 3, 2009.

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Human trafficking cases in Japan at record low in 2010

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of human trafficking cases in Japan last year fell by nine from the previous year to 19, a record low since comparable data became available in 2001, a National Police Agency survey showed Thursday.

Many cases involved women from the Philippines in bogus marriages being forced to work at adult entertainment establishments, it said. The total of 37 victims comprised 24 Filipinos, 12 Japanese and a South Korean.

The victims were barely paid and were deprived of their freedom through various restrictions, such as being forced to live in such premises, the NPA said.

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52-year-old man tricks high school girl into sending naked photos of herself

AICHI —

A 52-year-old Kobe man who asked a high school girl to send him naked photos of herself was arrested Wednesday for breach of anti-pornography laws. The suspect, who has been identified as Nobuhito Mizohata, allegedly used fake photos to pose as a younger man on a dating site where he became acquainted with the 16-year-old girl who lives in Nagoya.

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Labor office recognizes overwork death of foreign intern for 1st time

MITO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A labor office in Ibaraki Prefecture has found that a Chinese trainee at a local firm died in 2008 due to overwork, marking the first recognized death from overwork of a foreign intern under a government-authorized training program.

The male trainee, Jiang Xiaodong, died of cardiac arrest aged 31 in June 2008 after working more than 100 hours of overtime in his final month, prompting his family to file a workers' compensation claim in August 2009.

Jiang came to Japan as a trainee under the program in 2005 and was working at a plating factory of metal processing firm Fuji Denka Kogyo in Itako, Ibaraki, according to the Kashima labor standards inspection office.

Lawyer Shoichi Ibusuki, representing the bereaved family, said Jiang had worked about 150 hours of overtime a month since his second year and generally had only two days off per month.

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Japanese Photographer to Face Trial
The Siem Reap provincial court will try a Japanese man next week on charges of producing pornography, though the defendant claims the photos were part of an inoffensive project shot in connection with the recently-concluded Angkor Photo Festival.

Chea Heng, deputy chief of Siem Reap’s anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection office, said Go Takayama had been arrested last month after he hired a Cambodian man and a female sex worker to take him to photograph women at a brothel in Siem Reap district’s Thvay Dangkum commune.

Police discovered 78 illicit photos on Go Takayama’s camera that depicted sex workers in Siem Reap, he added.

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