15,000 Thai children, women trafficked for Japan sex trade each year

[Big Boy]

15,000 Thai children, women trafficked for Japan sex trade each year: police study

About 10,000-15,000 Thai children and women are illegally trafficked to Japan each year to serve its sex industry, according to a study conducted by a senior police officer.

Worry over human trafficking in the Kingdom has grown after Pol Maj-General Paween Pongsirin, the former lead investigator of a 2015 trafficking case, said he would have caught more “big fish” had he not been forced to flee to Australia. The 2015 case stemmed from the discovery of a mass grave of Rohingya migrants in Songkhla and led to prison sentences for an Army general and other senior officials for conspiring with traffickers.

Meanwhile Thailand was last year downgraded in the US human trafficking report to the Tier 2 Watchlist.

"In the case of illegal trafficking of women and children for prostitution, Japan has been the largest market for trafficked Thais in the last 10 years, with about 10,000 to 15,000 sent annually," the research said.

It also reported that about 30,000 unskilled Thai labourers are trafficked abroad each year, mostly to Taiwan.

The police study covered two aspects of Thai trafficking: domestic and international.

Full story: https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40013033

[handdrummer]

How do they know how many people have been trafficked?

[PeteC]

I can understand what the article is trying to do, but it's a lame attempt. No sources or statistics referenced, and the police officer in exile for his own safety seems to be the only authority referenced. If to be believed, 27-41 people have to be taken out to Japan everyday, 365 days a year. That I don't believe. No one has been getting into Japan for the past 2 years due to Covid, how did they manage to smuggle them in, submarine?