[lbo-talk] Sex trafficking in Japan

[Wendy Lyon]

On 8/31/06, Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> >> > While it states that Japan is beginning to address the
> >> > demand for trafficking through education programs in
> >> > secondary schools, it also chastised the Japanese
> >> > government for failing to criminalize the demand for
> >> > prostitution that fuels the industry.
> >
> > The suggestion here is that criminalisation of prostitution would
> > eliminate (or at least greatly reduce) trafficking.
>
> My understanding of the above paragraph was "criminalization of the
> demand" not of the "offer".

What the report actually says is: "Although prostitution is illegal,
there have been no efforts to criminalize demand."  So it is actually
chastising Japan for not implementing full criminalisation, i.e. of
both the demand and the offer.