Import of Prostitutes (Cont’d)
Detective Nakamura, Yoshida, and Sugabe are famous for recruiting prostitutes as I mentioned earlier. But devils in the interior also spoke of Senjirō Kawanaka, originally from Oita Prefecture, as an advisor in this field. He is a returnee from the United States, an economist who has served as an instructor of Political Science School in Kanda, Tōkyō, run by Kunpei Matsumoto, and has published some work on political economy. However, he has changed his direction and transformed into a loan shark. I cannot prove this information but as he has been displaying his competence as a loan shark, it might have been true that he was involved in recruiting prostitutes.
Let us say that devils in Japan utilize their evil strategies in every direction, fabricate visas, have women pass examinations on the water and successfully land in Victoria or Vancouver. But what does the financial transaction, or trade relation, between devil-kinds look like? Let us say that migration of a woman costs a devil in Japan 400 or 500 dollars. The devil would charge the woman the cost. Of course, the woman cannot arrange such money so she would return the cost from her income. In case where a devil in the interior pays all the migration cost, the woman would immediately be held by his cave to serve for his business.
Their business relation is quite complex as there are different cases with different people involved. There are cases where devils in the interior send requests to Japan and also cases where brothel owners themselves travel to Japan and bring women back. In some cases there are brokers involved in arranging immigration documents, which make the trade relation extremely convoluted. However, while methods of recruiting women can vary, the fact is that devils fill their own pocketbook by charging women more than what it actually costs for their travel. Even when brokers get money as honoraria or commission from brothels in the interior, this is eventually charged to prostitutes. Clearing off the charge takes them a few years. They give half of their daily earning, which is half of the total earning from prostitution, to their caves and get the other half; and from this remaining half they pay the charge. This is a long-term and miserable process.
There is an awful case like this: a prostitute brought by a devil successfully landed in this country; half of her earning is stripped away by her madam, the remaining is further divided into four-six, the six goes to a devil for his pocket money, and the four is used to repay her travel cost. This shows that their evil strategies are extended to an unimaginable level.