Decadent massage to 12-year-old Thai girl...Mom takes money from her bank account
Nov 06, 2025
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According to Japanese media, including the Yomiuri Shimbun, police arrested Masayuki Hosono, 51, who runs a massage shop in Chofu, Tokyo, on charges of violating the Labor Standards Act.
He is suspected of having a 12-year-old Thai girl perform hospitality tasks such as decadent massage at a private massage shop he runs between June and July this year. It turned out that he made young people under the age of 15 work even though he knew he was banned from hiring them.
According to police, the girl, who is from northern Thailand, entered Japan in June as a short-term stay with her mother, and later returned to Thailand, leaving the girl at the store.
The girl slept in the store kitchen and dealt with male customers, earning 600,000 yen (about 5.6 million won) for about a month.
It is known that most of the money earned was transferred to the account of the person involved in the mother.
The girl had been working at another business since August, and in September, she asked the immigration office in Minato-ku, Tokyo for help and was protected.
The girl told the police that she would come to pick her up if her mother was working, and she had no choice but to endure even if it was difficult for her family in Thailand to make a living," he stated.
Japanese authorities view this as a case of human trafficking under the United Nations' 2000 adoption of the Protocol on Prevention of Human Trafficking.
According to the Japanese government's 2025 annual report on human trafficking measures, 66 victims were protected last year, about 90% of whom were sex trafficking victims, and 41 victims under the age of 18.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
