Moeka Iida

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279 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · View from the summit: what did the G7 achieve? · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

I saw a video of Kamiya Sohe, who's the leader of the right-wing Sanseito party, saying, This is truly lamentable.

And I think behind this there's a sense of wounded pride.

So during Japan's boom period in the nineteen seventies and eighties, a lot of Japanese men or salary men traveled abroad, especially to Southeast Asia, to buy sex there.

Now that Japan's economy is in decline, people from abroad, wealthy foreigners are coming to the country.

So this topic has been discussed on social media and it's also been picked up by an opposition party who confronted Prime Minister Takaichi about this.

And she has the justice ministry to act and consider revising the country's prostitution laws.

What are they actually considering?

What are their options?

They're currently debating revising a law called the Prostitution Prevention Law, which was established in the nineteen fifties under the American occupation.

The current law contains a lot of disparities.

So women selling sex are subject to punishment, but strangely, buyers of sex are not subject to punishment.

So the justice ministry is currently talking about making these people stand on a more equal footing, so introducing some punishment for the buyer.

Yeah.

I think this discussion has also sparked some broader debates about how to regulate sex in the country.

And it's interesting how feminists in the country are also very divided.

Some feminists in Japan would like the country to adopt the Nordic model, which was first introduced in Sweden and later adopted by countries like France.

So the Nordic model criminalizes buying sex, but decriminalizes or protects women.

Who engaged in the trade.

The idea is to punish the demand side and reduce demand to eventually get rid of sex trade.

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