Moeka Iida

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

Moeka Iida’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 3.

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I'm sitting inside a cafe in Tokyo with a woman called Mai.

Mai is 34 years old.

She's a single mother.

For around a decade, she used to work at a hospital.

During COVID, she started to find her work too stressful.

She also wasn't very happy with the pay.

A few years ago she decided to enter the sex industry.

Moeka Eida is our East Asia reporter.

First, she started working as a porn actress, and now works as a dairy hero or delivery health worker.

It's Japanese slang to describe core girls who visit clients at hotels or at their homes.

For a two hour session, she earns thirty thousand yen, or roughly two hundred dollars.

That's pretty good pay for a woman like my who doesn't have a college degree.

And Mai is far from alone.

There are hundreds of thousands of women like her in the country.

The sex trade is estimated to be a multi-billion dollar industry.

And it's long been part of male social life.

One study found that nearly half of Japanese men have paid for sex at some point, compared with 11% in Britain.

But recently, sex work in Japan has come under scrutiny.

I think there were two recent triggers.

So one had to do with a horrible crime.

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