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

But there are also people with different views.

So some people say that criminalization only pushes those trade underground.

Some people call for the sex workers' work model.

They point to what countries like Germany or Netherlands has done, which is legalizing and regulating the sex trade or possibly

decriminalizing it like they have done in New Zealand.

I think a big rethink of the system is pretty unlikely.

And what I've also learned is that Japan's approach to sex work has often been about moral policing or keeping vice out of public view.

So the reason why the indoor sex industry is able to exist is because the laws themselves are very vague and selectively enforced.

To bring up a very famous example, there are popular establishments in Japan.

Japan called soplands, which is places where clients officially pay to take a bath and they get served by women.

People say these people paid for the bath, but they're not paying for the sex.

And it just happens that these two people, the client and the woman, fell in love and decided to have sex out of their own volition.

So everyone knows these things happen, but they go along with it.

So I think what's going to happen is women standing in Okuba Park are going to get arrested or detained or will fade away.

But women like my are going to keep seeing their clients at hotels or at their homes.

So I do think the current debate has started a conversation in Japan about how to regulate the sex trade, but I see very little appetite by authorities to really dig deep into the indoor sex industry, which I mentioned is a multi

billion dollar industry and I think that trade is gonna keep going on under the shadows.

Morecam, thank you very much for talking to me.

Thank you so much for having me, Rosie.

The Intelligence from The Economist · There Xi goes: visiting North Korea · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

On a recent evening I visited a Nepalese Indian restaurant in East Tokyo called Himalayan Caravan.

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