Regarding forged visas, there was an incident in which Shimokawa, the head clerk at Kantarō Imoto’s inn in Yokohama, was involved. This was brought up to the Court of Appeal but a crime was not constituted due to a lack of evidence. But any way, this is when marine police started to cross-reference dubious people with the visa issuing office by telegram.
Given this situation, those abductors tactically get around the net of law, blind the eyes of the public and do everything they can with all possible deception. However, for some reason they are extremely small in scale compared to powerful smuggler-abductor fellows in Shanghai, Singapore, and other Southern regions and the number of so-called bosses is relatively small. I suppose this comes from the level of difficulty of travel and historical contexts. We have many devils such as Yoshida, Sugabe, Chatarō, and others, but it is a fact that we do not have big-scale ones like Sumakichi Hatakeyama in Nagasaki, who have a few hundreds of minions under him; Tamegorō Kotani in Shanghai; Izō Sasaki in Hong Kong, who was stabbed to death; or Nerima in Singapore, who is a great boss of gambling and a procurer, smuggler, and abductor. Among all there is no prostitution-related person in Canada, who is regarded as a great boss and stands out among others. Because there is none, they are often at odds with each other over a small amount of money when it comes to profit-making, but they also have tacit understanding of one another and sometimes communicate and secretly help each other. Thus, their crimes range widely and, of course, they should not be judged leniently.
There are still things that have not been covered regarding the importation of prostitutes, and particularly, facts that would shock the reader, but I will write about those in different sections. I will bust all the crimes that remain, in the future, so I conclude this section here.