Schoolgirls for Sale

*7.0

Status

Released

Production

VICE Media

Aired

2015-07-20

Schoolgirls for Sale

Japan’s obsession with cutesy culture has taken a dark turn, with schoolgirls now offering themselves for “walking dates” with adult men. Last year the US State Department, in its annual report on human trafficking, flagged so-called joshi-kosei osanpo dates (Japanese for “high school walking”) as fronts for commercial sex run by sophisticated criminal networks.