Schoolgirls for Sale in Japan
Japan’s obsession with cutesy culture has taken a dark turn, with schoolgirls now offering themselves for “walking dates” with adult men. Last year the US State Department, in its annual report on human trafficking, flagged so-called joshi-kosei osanpo dates (that’s Japanese for “high school walking”) as fronts for commercial sex run by sophisticated criminal networks.
In our exclusive investigation, VICE News host Simon Ostrovsky will bring you to one of Tokyo’s busiest neighborhoods, where girls solicit clients in their school uniforms, to a concert performed by a band of schoolgirls attended by adult men, and into a café, where teenage girls are available to hire by the hour. But the true revelations come behind closed doors, when schoolgirls involved in the rent-a-date industry reveal how they’ve been coerced into prostitution.
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China is oppressing every religion . they are burning churches and crucifying chirstians. No reports anywhere about it. Also they are pulling falundafa/gong people out of their homes and killing them. 5000 since 1999 are missing or dead. just saying
Thank you for sharing one of the realities in Asia The guy who told you not to film minors You should have said Is a crime to sell minors
I love Vice but I think Vice can do better. It's great to shine a light on this but what can we do to make a change? Why are there not links to support people trying to help these girls. What is the point of watching someone else's sadness with no way to help?
I love China so much. I would hate to see it become a petty dictatorship. They have grown and become such a powerful force on the planet. They should be leading the planet, not following and discriminating. Who wants to go to a place like that? Ask the USA.
Man: you can’t show underage people But you can sell them? WTH
I feel sorry for u girls
No one is selling them they are selling themselves. Leave home, no education, no job and not looking for one. Marriage in Japan happens after your career is started when they are 40 and the women only look for men with money and lots of it. Like anywhere else in the world.
That’s what I was thinking ( u can show any person on filming if they in public)
Dude don't know how to clap back 😷😷😷😷 you can't show them on camera but you're out here selling them???? 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
Showing them might cause a failure to business
>You can't film underage people Well you can't sell them either, but here we are.
They aren't selling them, just renting. Go to eastern Europe to buy one.
👏🏼👏🏼
@@WelcomeToMyDream 😭
It sounds like just talking and walking with them. Not sexual.
@Adam Shihab That's where all the rich Arab sheikhs buy white women from so they can have lighter skinned children.
Let's be honest. There is no reason a man needs to pay a schoolgirl to talk. The whole "only 70-80% are malicious" is bs. ANY grown man who is hanging out with a stranger schoolgirl is a problem. (Also to anyone trying to disagree with me, I don't care and I will not be entertaining your responses)
Oil searcy, I agree. Plus obviously many are fronts for prostitution! The chat and fortune telling schoolgirl is just a front. She will have sex with you in one of the back rooms I am sure too!
I agree
Definitely Yes!
110 percent
Ahhh yea ignorance of other cultures, a true American pastime. 😂
You know something's wrong when you see the elders show up to a 16yr old performance
Most countries have a 16 year old consent. People are weird but as long as you are compliant with your country’s culture. No harm no foul. I like women 10-20 years older than me so I’m a complete opposite.
Pedosas?
@Good Enough Guitar the age of consent being 13 is a widely spread piece of misinformation. each prefecture in Japan sets their own age of consent. for example, in Tokyo the age of consent is 17 due to the Youth Protection Laws of Tokyo. having uh relations with a 13 year old will get you arrested .
@@cxramelty242 lmao actually what you said is a widely spread piece of misinformation (yeah I just had this conversation recently so I know). This is taken straight from wiki page on Age of Consent in Asia: > An array of local ordinances adopted in all 47 prefectures [...] forbid sexual acts judged "indecent" (淫行, inkō) between adolescents (persons under 18) and adults [...]. A 1985 decision of the Supreme Court of Japan on Fukuoka Prefecture's bylaw held that the ordinances were not to be broadly interpreted as forbidding all adult-adolescent sexual acts, [...] also ruled that adult-adolescent sexual acts within "socially accepted norms", such as those within marriage, engagement, or a "similar sincere relationship", were not "indecent". So yeah in practice these laws only apply to underage prostitution. Also I googled Youth Protection Laws of Tokyo and found Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths, which "promotes the healthy development of people under the age of 18 by restricting their access to published material that is considered inappropriate" (again, wiki) and has nothing to do with age of consent. Are you sure it's the correct name?
@@Kriophoros Wikipedia is not a reliable source which i think everyone knows, can you show some evidence using laws, documents, or archives on the topic? (yea i just had this conversation recently so i know) isn’t evidence either. Different prefectures have different laws and most of them say that its illegal to have relations with a 13 year old. AND JUST BECAUSE ITS LEGAL DOESNT MEAN ITS MORAL. its so weird how grown men try to defend the 13 year old law so much, and even as someone whos 15 its mad weird, i would not want to have relations with a 14 year old let alone 13. disgusting.
Simon was more comfortable on the literal Ukrainian battlefront than having a schoolgirl in Japan tell him his fortune
I would be too to be honest.
He would rather have a bullet in his leg than whatever that torture thing is
I guess the worst nightmare would be having a Japanese schoolgirl tell him his fortune on the literal Ukrainian battlefront.
Probably because he don't want people to think that he also buy this girl
This is called "GROOMING" of Children by PEDO's ...this JK's...."NORMALIZING" ENABLING Child Molesters to openly operate.
I feel like they could’ve gotten a lot more honesty out of the girls if they’d had a female journalist instead.
My thoughts exactly.
No
@Sug Madick by your profile picture and the way you write I can tell you really understand women 😂
@@guero6103 bruh sug madick spittin straight facts
@@guero6103 I like how he speaks about women lying like men don't also. As if there aren't a ton of videos that display masculism. The point he is making seems absolutely pointless to make. 😬
It's not just human trafficking.. THEY ARE CHILDREN!! SICK!!!
Depends. In the West children can also have jobs and they are also allowed to have sex. I don't really see much of a difference if a trafficked person is 17 or 18. It's different when they are pre teens.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 you need help. teenagers are children. what they do to eachother in private is different, but anybody with a normal brain will know that selling them on the street is plain evil.
I'm Japanese and I'm shamed to see these things happening still. Japanese media needs to bring shame to these old men who seek companies of these young school girls.
some are middle aged as well but yea its seems to be mostly old over 60 into 70s as well...japan more so than other places seems to have this obsession..sure its in other places but not as common....
They're all ages, it's just as bad for them if they're 25 or 55, if the girls are children then it's not ok
Oh USA still combat with what makes a women and a man. Lol
As a Japanese ← this is a sign of Wapanese. please remember
“we can’t show underage people” is loose translation for “we can’t have you exposing us, selling/exploiting these underage girls”. sick man.
I’m afraid that translation of yours is the only thing sick here. Age of consent is considerably lower in Japan (13 I think) so to them it’s like dealing with a girl with consent. Moreover, “exposing” the man for what? exploiting the girls exploiting themselves? That would never hold in a court of law, or just logically it’s unsound. The girls do it out of free will, but you strip them from both accountability for their actions and from their free choice. To add insult to injury, you don’t grasp that they have a different culture By no means am I an advocate for this foolishness, but place the blame where the blame is rightfully supposed to go
@@idrea43 you're a sick individual if you think 13 year old girls are able to think logically and make these kind of decisions for themselves. Also stop using culture as an excuse. "Culture" is used to justify abuse and mutilation of genitalia where I'm from so that won't hold up in court either. It's disgusting. Not to mention some of these girls were specifically targeted from low income areas and are probably doing this to help their families. The blame goes to the men that are exploiting them. Point black.
@@pussydestroyer69285 Point Blank* If culture isn't an excuse then the entire japanese government are pedophiles. Do you see how nonsensical the ramifications of your beliefs are? I ask that you think more perceptively in future. What's to blame is the predators and in many circumstances the girls themselves. And you can't crudely cross-reference culture as if they're all equally immoral. If the girls are being manipulated then obviously the manipulators are to blame. But don't try and shift accountability off all of the girls. Responsibility must be placed justly, not through a feminist lens. A healthy (or more accurately unhealthy) proportion of them walk into the industry by their own volition. And many of them are being targeted and exploited. The whole thing's a dumb idea in the first place.
@@idrea43 well, if the entire Japanese government are well aware of this and even participate then yes. Yes, they are indeed pedos. Lol. Was that a way to try and make a point? Or? This has nothing to do with your view of feminism. This has everything to do with the exploitation of CHILDREN. Because Yes.. these girls are CHILDREN. I'm not gonna blame children for putting themselves in these situations when the adults around them have failed them. Again, no 13 year old girl is capable of making this kind of decision on her own free volition. The blame will always be placed on the predators. I don't know exactly why you want to start "blaming" the girls. Like what exactly does that mean? You want us to shame these children for being exploited? Lol. Nice try.
@@pussydestroyer69285 Again, your lack of perceptivity leads you into a sad misunderstanding of what i'm saying. This isn't a black and white thing, don't make it out as though it is. There are undoubtedly girls who are targeted and procured. But there are also girls who voluntarily go into that sort of thing, at different ages. And to say the girls are entirely blameless is not distributing accountability justly. Like i said, no one cares for your feministic narrative when it comes to real life. This isn't about "shaming" like i said, simply a matter of justice. The procurers will always have an element of blame and in some instances so will the girls for actively seeking and accepting this. And you missed my point. The age of consent in japan is 13, regardless of this exploitation case. Are they pedophiles for that? Also thats an unsubstantiated claim, saying the entire japanese government is "In on it" (exploiting young girls). It's clear you aren't good at reasoning, i suggest you work on that.
"These girls are surrounded by a group of men who appear to be their bosses"..... we got a name for that it's called a pimp
But I thought pimps only sell prostitutes for sex , here it seems that's it's only for dating with older men . Nonetheless it's bullshit
Controlled n threaten by them should be a better description
Most pimps work alone not with other pimps
A typical "Pimp" would be found dead within hours in Japan. He would be treading on the official preserve of the Yakuza. The Yakuza control Vice and anyone who thinks they can muscle in, even GOD, would be found floating in the nearest river. Japanese Culture is the Worlds most complex. Definition of Yakuza: Officially recognised gangsters who are BORN into this multi-thousand year old cult. They even have their own Politicians, and even declare their ill gotten gains for Tax every year. When the Yakuza come to the attention of the international press, the Japanese will make some token gesture to make the press go away (such as a supposed law to ban them) but in reality everything will continue as before. You could only begin the destruction of the Yakuza by working from within, but you can only get into the Yakuza by being born into it. Every member is tattooed from birth, as part of the culture of protecting its own.
@@TheDuke-vb9cq spoken like a true propaganda piece.
Japan is cleanest country from Outside not from Inside..
It’s so creepy and beyond grooming I don’t understand why this is allowed anywhere
"I would not want to be a woman here." That one sentence says a lot
Damn. Came to say exactly what you said.
Tbh if you are a man you probably don't want to be a woman period 😶 I don't mean this in an offensive way, it is just more difficult being a woman.
@@aamirhus23 OK simp and snowflake
@@aamirhus23 fair
jpop idols sell panties or sex not songs and finally become pornstars, there is no female rights in japan.
“Don’t shoot underage girls” Bro is literally selling them 🤦🏾♂️
🤣🤣🤣
This is incredibly misleading and inaccurate - shame on Vice for not doing their homework. In Japan, it's illegal to take pictures/video of people without their permission. This is ESPECIALLY true for underage minors. They were literally breaking the law by shooting the girls. The guy who came up and confronted them was probably not the boss, but someone who wasn't afraid to confront a big scary foreigner. People probably didn't tell them sooner as Japanese do their best to avoid confrontations, especially if it's a foreigner and they don't speak English.
@@markjune3027 no you are wrong, he is the boss, but the thing vice doesn't say is that the Girls dream is to be an idol and they created the culture themselves, but once they are in and signed the contract they get exploited, but the part about taking photos is kinda right, not illegal but they try to respect privacy aswell it's a grey zone for sure.
One last thing I like how a lot of the comments were talking about why Oh you're selling the girls! So why can't we film them First of all, you don't know if that individual is having a hard time and consensualy doing a part-time job Second of all, I'm 99% sure back in the States we have a law against filming minors, especially without consent And before anyone comes out and start talking about it's a public area. The whole reason for filming. This was about the girls anyway. u r Not filming the general area anymore you feel me to individual.
That dude was about to whoop Simon's ass 🤣
"You can't film the underage people"... said the girl's pimp
This is sickening. People say "it's just the culture" but the culture needs to change. It's simply wrong to exploit these young women like this.
It is just culture AT THAT TIME. As a person who always goes to Japan Tokyo every year, i see these stuff less and less every time
Fun fact: it's never going to happen it's not going to change but hey I'm not sick or a creepy old man but I live in Thailands sex industry is legal here
@@UnknownDog7I was there for two months this summer. There is even more now. Toyoko kids, delivery health, jk using paypay...especially since borders have opened there's a MASSIVE spike in money. over 2 million tourists. a record number. even foreigners soliciting the girls who sell themselves in kabukicho. it's a record number selling themselves. it's worse now.
@@dinomite705that's sad :/
Yeah I know it is sad.
seeing only grown men in the crowd is weird to me 💁🏻♀️
Not sure what got were expecting
What's your problem ? It's okay unless their harming them ? Even you've some kpop guy as your profile pic so should we be worried too ?
I know right? there should be young boys as well, and Koreans, and black people, and your mum and dad
MINMIN JUNGJUNG SESE Would you want younger men im pretty sure they are but you probably wont see them
Dev Kit7 i speak as a gay guy who used to be one of these boys, but a lot of young gays like very girly bands, so I wouldn’t actually be taken aback if there were a bunch of gay boys in the crowd. It’s the fact that it’s old men who clearly aren’t gay that’s disturbing.
Japan is a really weird place man.... I dunno if it's just the fact that we're not used to eastern culture, or it's really weird. Lot's of bright, colorful and fun things, but at the same time, something sinister like this can hide underneath. Very creepy
Same I love Japan as a country but imo I also think their culture is quite weird
Not eastern, just japan
Like Dressrosa
I never really liked alot of animes and their problem with sexualizing child-like characters
The stronger the light, the darker the shadow
Great reporting Simon! Also major props to the cameraman and editors. It must have been hard to decide what to show for journalistic purposes and what to obscure as to not appeal to the very creeps this story is about. Y’all really threaded the needle on this one, especially considering how uncomfortable this must have been to work on behind the scenes.
I thought the cameraman did a horrible job. In Japan, you cannot take pictures or video of people without their permission. It's the law. The guy wasn't trying to strongarm the cameraman as he implied, he was telling him to stop because it's against the law and you're not supposed to do that. It's amazing he got away with it for as long as he did. I think people were just too afraid to come up to a Caucasian and confront him because they couldn't speak English.
After VICE’s recent stunt, I can’t trust anything they report about Japan. When I first saw this, I immediately shared it to everyone and started spreading the information from this as though it was fact. I deeply regret that now. Why should I believe they didn’t mislead or twist information in this one to make Japan look bad, too? VICE has completely shattered my trust. From now on, I’ll leave Japanese people to sort out Japanese issues.
@@markjune3027 that's opposite of everything I read. It's only illegal if you're being a public nuisance.
@@dbell1894 they didn't twist anything. Look up JK business in Japan.
Simon has since hooked up with a 14 year old school girl after dumping his 12 year old rent boy- But his quest to root out trafficking continues in earnest
I hope the FBI is checking out the comments. There are a lot of men who are into kids.. in the comments. They are admitting to it. Their computers and phones need confisated.
They're so obvious. Most alarmingly on Instagram. In every comment section of a picture of any woman lol
sickening
That woman who cares for the girls and give them food I respect her. She’s kind.
We. Need. More. Caring. People. Like. Her.
Shes supirior
Yes
@@MsLeighton41 *superior
@Ari luvs Jesus well, I always strive to be a better person, so I guess I'm halfway there...? Idk, my mother says that if you put the effort into something, then you're already half-successful
The woman who's helping the girls is a true angel!
Blessings.
@Wulffwoodd DREW until you've been on the street, you can't say.
I hope She is always healthy and have a good happy life, God bless Her.
@Wulffwoodd okay then just say in Texas. Don't make it the case for everyone. I never wanted to be 3 months pregnant and homeless. I have no where to go and desperately trying to get a second job, but covid is ruining everything.
Not the feminist we deserve, but the one we need indeed
Lived and worked there as a woman. Japanese men asked me many times why I bother working, when I could just find a husband. It is not the only unpleasant comment I heard as a white woman living there. So, yes, Japan's society is quite sexist, but there are also various good aspects. Some of which I wish I could see more of in Europe. Like manners and discipline.
I saw a documentary about Japanese women's prisons and half the inmates were old ladies who felt the food in prison was better than the nursing home so the shop lifted so they can get sent to Jail. there is something wrong with how they treat the female population in Japan
Women don't deserve any special treatment
I’m Japanese and I believe Japan needs to fix this, this has absolutely no offence against me and no culture or country is ever perfect
You're right bro. Nobody's perfect.
But every culture doesn't fantasize about underage girls as much as you.
Jass Sohi009 first of all I’m a girl, second of all I’ve been talking about the cons of Japan... where ever you are from I bet your country has something bad about it too. No country was perfect and my comment wasn’t supposed to offend anybody in anyways so I’m curious to know why you offended me.
@@viril9821 I'm not offended, I'm just xenophobic
Jass Sohi009 oh I’m sorry, didn’t know... what country are you from though
That woman who takes care of those girls is amazing.. A true saint. Open minded and kind people like her keep up some of my faith in humanity
Ikr. She was angel. I hope there are more Human that is having more care n Humanitarian
Don't be too angry at humanity itself. It is this profit-based system, which drives people to exploit one another. The problem is capitalism.
God bless this volunteer eoman.to,help.girlssss
@Ashlyn Mathew It's silly to put faith into a fictional or long dead person. Religious people are such a joke. If you want to have something changed, take matters into your own hands.
@@BanBootlicking Wooahh, That is straight up rude man, Calling Jesus as a fictional character and a long dead man.... If you want to encourage people to solve problems their own, You can just motivate them and not degrade their religious perspectives.
I’m really glad that we have people like Yumeno Nito in this world. She is a great person
Maybe she can accomadate the wishes of finding a girl a suger Daddy
You should make a report about Japans stalking problem or laws (in case of divorce, you are allowed to kidnap your own children).
Poor Simon is so uncomfortable and freaked out. And rightfully so.
V i hope he is... because if his a father he should think of how his young baby girl could be one of these girls...
I mean like he chased a Russian soldier, met some terrorists, and had worse things but yeah To me, meeting a pedo is the worst thing
Cause Chris Harrison up his ass lol
It's because he got a serious hard on sitting with her, and that wasn't supposed to happen. Remember he's anti school girl exploitation.
@@RandomPerson-jo7cw the worst thing than that would be meeting a society of pedos freakin disgusting
All the discord mods disliking this video
LMFAOOOO
OMGGG😭😭
no kidding I just got banned from a popular server for refusing to send n**es, way worse than Reddit and Twitch mods for sure. Not just one mod either, and while I'm 22, as far as they knew I was 15......
Incels, nice guys, redditors, and discord mods all at once.
@@AcolyteOfLucifer fookin hell, that's just pedophilia
昔近い業界にいたけど、子供の時からこのカルチャーがテレビでも肯定されているから、自分が英語を学んで海外の意見を知るまでその危険とかに気がつけなかったです。実際苦しんでる子も多いのに気がつけなかったのが悔しい。
i am sorry that you've been through this, i hope you're safe and healing now
I admired and looked up japan, they are being portrayed the most disciplined people T_T but this one changes everything
I agree! But at the same time I think we need to understand that ALL countries have this side to them. There’s always going to be a percentage of humans who are worse than garbage. Regardless of race, colour, nationality, religion, whatever you know…
@@chamathkaperera348 problem with Japan is that there are a whole bunch of people who view Japan as some kind of homogeneous utopia. So whatever Japan have which includes child pornography, they will defend it as if it's their own territory. When bringing up this kind of issues so that people won't think japan as some kind of utopia, people are gomma defend ot with the most insufferable excuse by saying "every country have their own problem so please don't focus on Japan only". These people are just deflecting criticism so that it will be forgotten and that their views of japan will always stay "utopian".
it doesnt change anything to their level of education and or politeness.
@@icedteapeach217 level of education is high literally can be done anywhere. Just that there's a huge gap. Level of politeness in jp feels way too fake if you've actually experienced it
This same channel also made a video that shows how manga in Japan shows serve cases of abuse and pedophilia. Just seeing people be so casual around it definitely changed my opinion on Japan a little as well.
the journalist looks uncomfortable as hell lmao understandable. props to him
@Vannic Wolf wanting to talk to someone who "isn't set in their ways and non judgemental" is normal. What makes this weird is the "non judgemental conversation partners" are exclusively school-aged teens and exclusively girls. How many of those men would stop using the service if the girls are switched with equally non judgemental boys? If what you want truly is just a genuine conversation with someone who won't judge you, it doesn't have to be with school girls right?
he's more comfortable on a literal Ukrainian battlefield xd
@@RealCrackey yeah he seemed to be in a better mood when he was recounting his own kidnapping
Dude looks like he just smoked a pound of weed.
*video starts* "Japan has an incredible tolerance for the exploitation of young girls..." Me: YEP
Japan got a problem
@@seansands424 anime was a mistake, pre-anime Japan was better, Revive the Land of The Rising Sun!!
@@seansands424 Korea was better, they whipped Japan pre Japanese imperial age
they doing that kinda shit is messed up knowing why Japan population is decreasing set aside the working hours.... they are ruining young girls that are gonna keep the population going.....
"YOUNG" sure sure whatever fake age you tell on your fake ID lol
Hearing the girl said she can't remember when she ate with anyone is so heartbreaking.. At that age even now in my 30's, my days are filled with asking people around me, "what should we eat?" Or being asked the same Never know it was such a blessing
Seeing some of these comments make me glad that digital footprint exists
Honestly half the time I'm between admiring and being disgusted with japan, in this case I'm disgusted
@Happi i agree
But we’re talking about this one right now
@@MissUnderstoodasAlways yeah but the commenter is acting like japan is the only country that does when in reality its not true and other country are doing the same
@@betterthanyou2881 Japan is considered a very advanced country, that's why it's particularly weird and crazy to see something like that happening there. This stuff is completely illegal/weird af/ultra creepy in other similar places.
@@Siile_ japan law are way too diffrent the reason that it grow like this is only bc of people unless i don't see anything with theire goverment
The terrifying thing is that when you are in Japan, you can almost ignore it, because it is everywhere and therefore seems normal
For them it is. Intimacy is just another commodity
Are you living in Japan? This is just Akihabara district.
@@chickentowel7036 yes im in Tokyo. It's big problem.
Yes I didn’t realize until recently that sex workers wearing school girl uniforms is highly problematic. You can easily find ‘sexy school girl costume’ at Halloween stores or sex shops.
But normalizing is little rare trait of this Japanese problem
Eye opening and courageous video. Thank you so much 😊
The woman that is helping the young girls is a good thing. There should be more like her helping the girls of the street. I've never understood Japan culture. It's too much of everything.
Japan is an ideologically backwards country.
It just goes to show you that a society could look like a utopia from the outside, but no country and/or culture is perfect.
It's totally what I thought after watching this video, I really like Japan's culture but when it's about JK... I didn't know that this could be like this, a teen girl with no friends and family
+CzarJuliusIII you 2 know nothing about Japan. . LOL. you probably didn't even watch the video in it's entirety. and basing your judgement/opinion off the title.
Sean Lee I've seen the entire video.
+CzarJuliusIII Denmark
+Sean Lee lol I think I know Japan more than you man, and I watch this video entirely. I'm asian not like you fucking weaboo
People forget that these girls are individuals with real emotions and struggles. They’re not some animated idol for people to cling to. Bravo Vice 👏
but some of them are willing to
@@user-ff7fg5hu1x Willing to be forced to have sex with adult men? Please stop trying to support and soften the blow that is hyper-sexualization of legit children.
And you think that girls dont like their job? No one forces any one to sing and dance, but w.e people like you can just judge nothing else
The Last Quincy I bet idols like their job. But being an idol shouldn’t make you be forced by your superiors to act interested in older men just to make a living. It’s terrible.
XSAVIER busy ?? Your point doesn’t even make sense. The idol industry shouldn’t be bad. Is that controversial? Sorry for hurting your precious feelings then. I don’t buy merch, music or go to K-pop concerts if you’re wondering. We’re all hypocrites, but we should all try to stop abuse one step at a time. Knowing it and turning a blind eye because “we let other things slide” is not smart and you know it.
That old office man blushing while holding the young girl's hand seriously irked me in ways I cant explain.
Bro they showed the fans in the crowd, I could smell the sweaty musk through my phone, sea of pedos
The reporter is so uncomfortable LOL The topic is really a sensitive one for sure.
Definitely is a sensitive, triggering topic.
He's just some judgemental American white guy going to a foreign country. Hey American white guy, remember you dropped atom bombs on this country?
@@maiharsarod8592 so what?
@@maiharsarod8592 We're talking about the sexual exploitation of young girls here. I think he has the right to be judgy.
@@maiharsarod8592 He ain't American, he's from Georgia (the former Soviet Republic not the state).
One of the men says ( 1:53 ): "He's filming underage girls.." Yet, he's responsible for selling or using them which is worse.
Ironic
There is a huge huge difference between America and Asia
jpop idols sell panties or sex not songs and finally become pornstars, there is no female rights in japan
The girls volunteer themselves stfu bxtxh
@@potentialaccident8196 It's not ped0 if the women are teens. If ask ANY man if he sees a teen as attractive (if he wasn't going to be antagonized or arrested for stating so) he would definitely say that he is attracted to her. People act like this is unusual. The problem is the system allows the loopholes for which these men can take advantage. Not to mention the industries have capitalized upon barely dressed women and the porn industry. Did you really think men would see women as people when they can see any naked at any point? The people are responsible for this outcome because THEY allowed it. You can't have whatever you want without consequences.
This hits hard if you think about everyone else who's struggling similar situations outside of japan.
This really breaks my heart.
I'm Japanese and my dad will never link arms with me when I was a teenager or since then incase he looked like one of these guys.
U live in japan
Why?
@@seri4837 because he was worried he’ll look like one of them, tbh I’ve never seen it but it’s something no one wants to be mistaken for...
That's sad, I'm sorry 🙏
@@momokoishida5402 is japan safe for women? Cause I've heard many horrendous cases of human trafficking and stuff
yup its 3 am and I'm on that side of youtube again
Clint T same here
Well you are learning something
Taffs World 2:15 am here
Idk how I got here but I did
3:19am here
What is that song in the intro it’s driving me wild!
japan has this weird issue with the sexualization of kids, especially girls cause it’s seen in media…
Yeah it's one of the main reasons why I hesitate to watch anime.
But a 16 years old is not a kid, thinking about them as children is more fcked up I think.
Me: So, you'll do anything for 20000 yen? Schoolgirl: Anything. Me: Hell yeah, guess who's getting his bathroom and kitchen remodeled for cheap?!
i would tell them to run a marathon while promoting a product i made. Easy ad investment
God, I wish I thought of that.
i dont think they have the skills for remodeling
For anybody wondering that about $18 dollars 😂
@@vertorix8899 no, its about 180$
" I won't want to be a women in this country " those were some strong words
jpop idols sell panties or sex not songs and finally become pornstars, there is no female rights in japan
Lol. That's because he ain't a woman in the first place
Women and schoolgirls are different. Women are living their life as always, having a job, a family. School girls sell themselfs for cash at young age.
this infomercial was very helpful. My next vacation is in Japan!
@@kimjong-un5203 you are talking about schoolgirl? 🤣🤣
Yes, full doco please
Just makes me realized how lonely it must be living in such environments.
Being a woman walking down the street is so scary already, I can't imagine being in an enclosed space with a strange man "having a chat".
Ok
To make it worse self defense weapons like tasers and even pepper spray are illegal here. Attacking the assaulter and causing them injury as self defense may land you in jail. The only thing you you're allowed to do is fighting them or turning on a loud alarm. Plus there is no hope in arresting your rapist or getting any protection from the police.
How can you be scared if you get paid
Ikr I used to live in Japan when I was like 19. I looked extra young myself and after school often there were weird men coming up to me asking is I wanted to work as a jk hostess
@G07 Denesse Anne Duran No, they fight to be privileged, and pretend that they fight for equality, which is disgusting.
this is disgusting I love anime and all that but what I've noticed about Japan is that they're really sick in the head like this about young girls its creepy
What's wrong with young girls?
I like young girls.
That made you wet, didn't it?
You sure?
Egg tbh....that kinda sounded Pervy.
Where's the soundtrack used for this?
Honestly, there is a difference between buying a school girl and buying a school girl’s time. The title is misleading
+1
I'm cringing from the comment section right now
I rlyyyyy don't Like this side of Japan its too canerous
Cancerous
TopToll Lol but the thing is it isn't even true you don't fucking buy school girls you hire them to walk around with you or chat if you are lonely vice news is just plain ass wrong
stfu
Nate Drake nah I would rather spread the truth and not lies
That concert was like the opposite of a boyband concert. Schoolgirls go to see cute boys perform and men go to see young girls.
If its for men then its pedophility...😂
I'm confused wouldn't the opposite of this weird concert be older women going to see young boy?
@@Unidentified863 That's also just boybands....
@@Unidentified863 I meant it's the same boyband so it's not the opposite.
@@jessicacroteau5600 dude.....only girls don't go to see boy bands......
Real question is does the government care?
@SixT9 what
NO!
It’s crazy how old vice operated they would have an old traditional reporter that was kind of out of place do the story’s compare to new vice where they make sure only certain reporters go to certain places
u guys should do this video in America. where 6 year old girls dance in small almost nothing out fits while perverts watch and judge.
Adam Cole holy shit..that is twisted is that real? it's kids why isnt the cops doing anything? in which part of the state?
Firouz Karim Watch toddlers and Tiaras
Adam Cole Beauty pageants.
Pen Pineapple Apple Pen Lol Yeah.
You have just put an equal sign between TWO TV SHOWS and a branch of sex INDUSTRY.
We live in a sad and sick world. Leave these young girls alone and let them grow up without old men drooling over them.
That's Japan for you!
@@slopernafti902 more like the world
@@bloodyhell47 I don't see this in other countries. This seems to be accepted in Japan :(
Sheesh who put a gun in their heads?
@@Neilukuk this is actually in the entire world. If you don’t see it then your undefeated ignorant please go your research🥰or watch another of vices video
Vice News is the best in bringing out the vice news in so unbiased a manner.
it was earlier buddy, not now after what we saw what false news they did to Andrew state... vice is going bankrupt anyway for being sketchy
Any adult woman dressing like a school girl is the problem. And any adult man talking to this adult woman in a school girl uniform is also a problem.
"we can't show underage people" and yet, in the west, there's this thing called "toddlers and tiaras" and "child beauty pageants". So there's _that_ .
Foreals thats subtle pedophilia and sexualization of children. We need to protect the kids from sick ass pedos
Can’t film them but they can “chat” with grown men and “take walks”? Hmm
@@octopuswiggle4933 yes it's disturbing. but why are there so many girls doing it? Like all of them can't be social failured status, drugaddicted or alcoholic. There seems to be some with brains and other oppertunites to.
henkarars ik it’s very weird! I don’t think the girls are all alcoholics or addicted to drugs I think that maybe some of it can stem from unhealthy relationships with family and maybe to make money or even to have someone to talk to or for attention? I’m not blaming the girls at all ofc, and I might be wrong
@Sci-Fi Machines yes, women are human beings and some may crave the attention. I would say the same if it were young boys, but this is predatory behavior by the adults that pay to chat with them. Did you not see the video of the girl who was pressured into sex while working there, though the shop was only advertised as chatting? I'm sorry, I disagree with you.
i'm supposed to be studying for exams and i have somehow ended up on the dark side of youtube
+Amna Sajei yo the semester are over! unless you in high school. if so, then lol
+Amna Abbasid Not the darkside... but rabid hole yeah.
+Amna omg me too :(
same why
same same same
At least they raised the age of consent to 16. Such a terrible excuse for an “industry”
2:09 Dude was staring you dowwwn. 🤣
Without sounding xenophobic, there is something seriously wrong in Japanese culture.
it is not xenophobic to point out or call out unethical behavior
There are things like that in all countries, just wrapped in different cultural and historic paper.
@@evgenyzak2035 but japan is the weirdest one out there, it's kind of disgusting and so uncomfortable to see imho. And they are selling the girls underage in the busiest street publicly like nothing's wrong. It's gross at least for me
@@evgenyzak2035 Japan's is definitely particularly bad though. Something about its unique blend of having terrible working conditions, extremely stressful society that sustains a high suicide rate, and being an imperial core country without an organized working class creates the environment for a very messed up culture.
@@st.altair4936tell me your country
I had noted this japanese fascination for school girls in the anime and manga culture.
Exactly. I am amazed how Anime or manga has exact same things like these and yet the anime/ manga are open to whole world. When I watched anime, I always wondered why almost every anime has school centred themes.. lol..
Exactly
That's what can be so difficult with anime and manga... like I enjoy the action and the stories, but the hyper sexualization of young female characters makes it feel so wrong to be watching it... I just want a good show and a good laugh.
@Rk Diksha do you have any proof of correlation between the two things?
@@Ram_jagat In my opinion, manga is often centered around schools because there are many students in Japanese manga and anime viewers. Also, I think it's because there are realistically many pure love stories in high school.
I completed my school this year and it sad to see these things happening to highschool girls, people need to stop these acts of sexuality!!
It's funny how after 2 weeks in japan no one even thinks about this being weird. If you are someone who watches this video and has never been to Japan before, be aware! This is by far not the only wicked thing in Japanese culture that's gonna completely blow away your sense of what's right and wrong.
what are the other things ?
I feel sad for these young girls having to choose this profession and they cannot turn to their own family for support which is really the most saddest thing.
"having to choose" huh
Matthew 18:6 Jesus says, “If anyone causes one of these little ones-those who believe in me-to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” I don't think we can impose our standards on those who do not know Jesus. Rather we should introduce them to His love and then this problem goes away. Truly anyone who accepts Jesus can never think to commit these crimes against children nor do they need to because He will supply all their needs according to his riches in glory.
Japan is a shinto, Buddhist country, with a strong tradition of bushido. Believe they tried Christianity in the early 1600 hundreds and it didn’t work. They don’t wanna believe in a white mans religion, that was copyrighted from African kemet Civilization.
@@susannemedina7955 - Yeah, how is He going to supply their carnal needs?
@@susannemedina7955 ok we know that's not true. Priests....
Simon: He is acting like he owns the street. Cameraman: Simon, we are in a different country and here you are arguing with a pimp at night time and in the middle of God knows what street.
The only thing he ‘owns’ is vulnerable underage girls, Simon probably would of knocked him out had the camera not been on.
@@extremelyreligiousdolphin750 I don't think you know how organized the pimping game is. 😂
I'd like to think there are some very large, very mean bouncers with these guys while they're abroad reporting on these disgusting pieces of trash.
@Wyatt ofc there arent...
@@mweezy these people are soft af they couldn't see past their emotions for a second
Should've known something was sketchy with how normal it is in anime for young girls to be sxualized..
What an insightful and touching documentary. My heart aches for these lost underaged girls living in a world of paedophile creeps 😢
I was born and been living in japan for all my life. What if I told you that old guys just treat girls like that on a daily basis, and women are so used to be treated like objects they don't even see the harm? Even in the office I work in, men constantly say and do things that makes me uncomfortable and that I consider as sexual harassment, but when I told my boss (who is a man) he just said that they don't mean harm, and just act like that because I'm cute.
Well if you lived in western country you can escalate it to the authorities, but since you are in japan doing that will only get you in trouble. That's a tough situation.
Damn
They make it seem like a compliment to be sexually harassed 💀💀
well if youre a male and they call you cute then that shi gay.
The trend I found in the comments. Those with an anime character as their profile pic: protective, outspoken and white knight personality. Those without a picture: horny, aggressive, supportive.
mah nigga
+Da Angel I lol'd
lmao that was funny
+DavodianK And me? I am a drawing.
lol. Yes, you might be right about that and if so...why?
the japanese idol stuff really reminds me of the kpop industry. they definitely have their similarities. except, i think the kpop industry has a lot more female fans (but i don't know that for sure). i think a lot of the fans of japanese idols are usually men, at least that's how it has been depicted.
Yea, it definitely has its similarities,the fan cams are mostly taken by men who are obsessed by one idol of the group for either youtube or for his own 'pleasure'. The fan bases are mainly girls for sure but for boy bands,it's a mix of both genders,it's definitely weird but for j-pop,it's in fact more disturbing. Kpop idols cannot have sex or have sexual relationships with anyone while they are part of a group since it will break their fans delusion,if one idol gets caught,they get banned from the group or gets canceled(as far as I know)
The way she said she has no friends is so wrong and almost weird for her age it's really heartbreaking
The amount of comments saying "well, this happens in other countries!!!" just to defend Japan are kinda gross. So what? If you are Japanese shouldn't you mainly want this eliminated in your country rather than using an excuse to allow it to continue? And we should all want to better our own nation instead of looking at other nations that have a similar issue and allow it to continue. Excuses don't allow for change to happen that is desperately needed, and that's pretty sad. This is a thing that happens everywhere, in the west when someone complains about any sort of issues a woman may have in her life, the immediate response is not "that's horrible, maybe we should fix that" it's a lot of times "well, at least this ain't the middle east" and the issue persists.
Why? People make choices about many things some bad some good, this choice is a personnel one they made. No one is forcing them to do anything. So, they say if the adults would only go away she would not sell themselves. They took the easy route and now complain. Oh Well
Brendan Armstrong I MAY JUSTLY TRY OUT TO TELL OTHERS I C REALIZM WITHIN THINGZ NOT GROSS THINGZ THEY LET THEMSELVES DO THOSE THINGZ AND REALLY CANT EVAN TRY OUT TO TELL OTHERZ I C THIS IS WRONG REALLY I ASSUME JUSTLY YOUR MENTAL MELADY IS GROSS
Oh well yikes the ignorance jumped 😬
@@isalian123 its not ignorance its facts
@@ohwell2790 uhh,so if your mom told you to kill people when you were little,and you were willingly killing for your mom,would you say you are choosing for yourself?(real case) It is because they haven't developed mentally and the coaxing and conditioning going on before they have grown up are just affecting their decisions. Honestly,even adults,with coaxing and tricks,they fell for those tricks. We are not as free in thoughts as you think. We can be conditioned,our psychological mechanics can be used. If you study psychology,you will know what is going on.
The "Ugly Bastard" and "Lolicon" tag is too strong.
Well, at least the ugly bastard tag can be between two consenting adults. If you cut the "bastard" part, though.
It's pretty wack my dude
Hentaihaven: oh shit here we go again 😒
@@pambansangbayaw4718 😂😂😂
You can see that behind their smiles, there is nothing but sadness and the wish for saving…
Their culture is so different that Americans can't even comprehend just how different it really is.. When I was staying at a hostel in Waikiki I spent a week talking with a girl, it's basically indentured servitude. She was "sponsored" to be there and she was busy most of the time, but I got to know her a little bit and even her translation of advertising for something that I was very familiar with was completely different than what we anticipate when we read a tourist brochure.. It's all about the fantasy. Even for the most common activity, it's dreams and fulfillment, and the girls are really just trying to experience life within this structure.
maybe so ,but the way they approach things is very unrealistic and doesn't mirror most of the rest of the planet would approach the same things...imv anyways...
.....annnnnnd I'm still unemployed.
me too man me too
Are you a fat, lonely, unemployable piece of shit that still lives in their parents house at age 25?
KreiserGaming why do you gotta be so mean!?
I'm being mean to myself. It's cool.
KreiserGaming o-oh s-s-sorry
I think Japanese culture is beautiful. This isn't.
The thing is, it hasn't really got much to do with japanese culture anyway, this JK business was born in the 1990's, so it's fairly recent...
@@jess1594 I know it isn't culture, I just meant anything that deals with Japan is beautiful, for the most part, but there are things in Japan that make them mess up their image.
They are crazy. Read more. Learn more. But still interesting culture.
Arianna Dorsey it seems pretty much culture theirs some anime’s I’ve watched that display this kind of culture and it’s weird af
@@lVladness True.
I am with the reporter that was super cringy talking to a girl like that. I never understood older mens attraction to children its pedophilia at best.
What is the song in the intro at 0:40?
Brooo I’ve been trying to find out tooo
The man:"We can't show under age people" Me: you can't sell under age people
We think Tokyo is like a Western country cause it's really developed but still Japan is a very patriarchal society. And Japan ranked very low in the gender gap index.
Indedd
Based Japan
“The gender gap index” is that a serious thing
lol why do you equate the western world with the absence of patriarchy? Quite an orientalist perspective. You can point out Japan’s issues without making the western world as a benchmark of progressiveness and morality. I can assure you, women still face the barriers of patriarchy, sexual violence and abuse here- it just manifests in a different way.
When I was in Japan prostitution was pretty much legal
I was intrigued because I read "sociologists for sale" in the title
I don't think they would fetch nearly as much.
The bigger the city, the darker the nightlife.
Creepy how all the attendees were grown men..smh
@light yagami bro, women do this too
@light yagami troll
I don’t see it therefore it doesn’t exist and the earth is flat 🤡
I went to a BABYMETAL concert in the Tokyo Dome back in 2018 and hooked up with a bunch of Japanese guys, all in their 30s, I guess. We went to an afterparty afterwards and then we all enthusiastically discussed who our favorite barely legal teen was, lol. Yeah, but for real, I'm in love with Japan, but I've seen (and experienced) first hand the very shady and downright ugly side of it too. I even met one of those young girls late at night in an alley and she was just standing there and probably selling herself (I walked by a few times that evening, so she definitely wasn't waiting for a bus there). She was crying, so I gave her a hug. :-/
This makes me sick... But atleast there are some that are trying to help
Japanese men have abandoned the warlike courage of their predeccessors for this.
I don't think its just Japanese men
ur sick
+tSp289 I think that you are talking about Nanjing Massacre, sadly known also as Rape of Nanjing, commited by Japanese Imperial Army. As Spanish, we don´t know to much about this, but I have a Korean friend that told me that Japanese Army during early XX used many Korean and Chinese womans as sexual slaves. Sad to watch on 2016 old pedophiles buying young japanese womans as if they were mere products.
Y5986 That is what I was referring to, also their brutal torture of prisoners of war during WW2 and the forced labour in building railways and bridges that was nearly as efficient at causing misery and death as the German concentration camps. Don't get me wrong, I think Japan is one of the most pleasant countries to visit in the world: amazing history, beautiful scenery and some fo the most helpful and polite people I've ever met, but I am glad they've forgotten that "warlike courage of their ancestors" and started (mostly) to be decent human beings. Sure, the schoolgirl thing is creepy, but there is no country on earth where shit like that doesn't happen.
You can see the charmed face of the reporter at 2:53. His life was changed after that