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Japan to investigate sex slave allegations

TOKYO, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Japan will send investigators to Southeast Asia to investigate U.S. claims that women are being brought to Japan unwillingly as sex workers.

Representatives from the Cabinet, the National Police Agency, the Justice Ministry and the Foreign Ministry will visit Thailand and the Philippines to investigate possible illegal trafficking of women to Japan. They will discuss with government officials and non-governmental organizations how Japan can curb this practice, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Wednesday.

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In June, a U.S. State Department report listed Japan as a country that needed to be supervised because its government was not doing enough to stop the trafficking of women from Asia, South America and Eastern Europe who ended up as sex workers in Japan.

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