Vulnerable young gay men lured into “legal” Tokyo sex industry At a glance, First Dash is just a regular Tokyo bar. Customers laugh and drink, their animated chatter competing with the monotonous beat of techno thumping through speakers hovering somewhere above dimmed, orange-tinted lights. When a customer enters, however, a row of eight fresh-faced young…
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Rob is a Tokyo-based British journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in publications around the globe. He has worked for international news agencies and contributed to numerous TV documentaries and books. He is also author of a book about the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. He has a Masters degree in journalism and teaches a media-related course at Sophia University.
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