the yakuza and prostitution.

The tentacles of the yakuza hit many different areas, mainly corporate extortion, gambling, smuggling, money lending, money laundering, drug trafficking, the sale of real estate,sports, entertainment industry, handling stock, the tourist scam, sex, prostitution, slavery, pornography, and the arms trade.

Sex - one of the companies connected to the yakuza is the lifeblood of the same, and they provide the worker with high purchasing power, the "salary man" in Japan on the wild side.The yakuza smuggled shipments of pornographic magazines and movies in Japan from Europe and America. They control prostitution circles throughout the city, usually keepyoung women from other Asian countries as indentured servants in captivity, and forced to work as "workers of pleasure." The Japanese euphemistically refers to the act ofprostitution "selling thermal" and the Japanese are very attracted to girls, as evidenced by the national obsession with young women, schoolgirls dress, pleated short skirts and high socks the knee.

The purchase yakuza girls "left over" from China, where the law restricts couples to having only one child, and the cultural preference is for the children, for less than $ 5,000 and putto work in the mizu shobai (literally the "business of water "), the network of bars, restaurants and night clubs of the yakuza.

China is not the only source of young women of the yakuza. Many of the prostitutes of theyakuza come from the Philippines, where poor village girls are tricked into going abroadwith promises of respectable jobs and good wages. Once they arrive in Japan they are put to work as strippers and prostitutes by the heads of the yakuza. Often these girls succumbto the demands of their pimps yakuza because they can earn much more money than they could do in the Philippines. The joke that runs between the passers-Filipinos in the big cities of Japan, is that when they send money home to their families unknown, full of enthusiasm write letters describing in detail his work as "receptionists."

Sex tours are also popular in East Asia, and the yakuza has its hands in this trade, organizing holiday tours to cities such as Bangkok, Manila, Seoul and Taipei, where hotelsoffer sex prostitutes to satisfy any fantasy .