No.01 (November 19, 1908)

Here devil caves refer to a group of shameless traders who fill their pockets with face powder-smell money in interior Canada while tarnishing the face of fellow Japanese. Of course, we will write about the movement of the very prostitutes, the main actors, and mediators, as well as the devil fellows who earn a living by selling women. However, our primary topics will include: how they crossed the ocean from Japan in the first place; how they settle in unknown towns; which evil, devil men run the show in those towns; how they communicate with devils in Japan; how they hid themselves from our eyes in fear and trembling when they stayed in Vancouver; what prostitutes’ everyday lives look like. In fact, “prostitutes” include women with different backgrounds: those from Vancouver; those who were kidnapped in Japan and forced to come; daughters of hunters; daughters of farmers; there is also a case where a female student, who was wishing to study abroad, not knowing the situation of this kind, and deceived by a human-eating-devil and convinced to cross 4,000 miles of rough waves, arriving in Canada only to realize that she was forced into prostitution, not able to escape from it, not able to speak the language, and stuck in the situation, being served as a sacrifice of evil men. As it turned out her heart fell and she became an admirable older sister of the devildom. Other topics will include: what attitude police authorities have toward these devils; whether prostitution is profitable in reality; how they take care of such money; what preferences prostitutes have and how they access leisure like regular people; whether there are people from influential families in Vancouver, who earned immoral easy money by communicating with red or green devils in interior. We attempt to detect every single one of their crimes and evils, covering a wide variety of topics, using materials that have been piled up on our editor’s desk.

I would like to notify you that there are people in our society who spit wrong, disillusioning ideas based on their superficial observations. For example, with respect to prostitutes, they would say: regardless of the location, east or west, or time, past or present, development of an immigrant land always involves pioneering prostitutes and labourers who gather around the women. Prostitutes become victims of the labourers’ sexual desire and offer them pleasure. This is why labourers are able to build a foundation for their permanent settlement there, instead of temporary residence. In fact, Tetsuji Hayakawa is one of the famous pro-prostitution individuals in Japan, who claim that we should encourage prostitution as a policy in order to facilitate the development of the nation. Unfortunately, his idea is not applicable to devil caves in Canada. In fact, it is not simply not applicable, but the presence of these caves is tremendously harmful to the development of fellow Japanese. I hope the reader will nod in the affirmative to the facts that are going to appear in Exploration of Devil Caves.