Voice of a victim \u2013 I have lost my dignity<\/strong><\/p>\nThe symposium started with a pre-recorded video interview with a female victim of coerced pornographic filming. She signed a contract with an agency to work as a pinup model. Afterwards, she was informed about appearing in pornographic films. She tried to decline, but the agency persistently tried to persuade her \u2013 keeping her in their office for hours at a time, threatening her verbally, and intimidating her with payments they alleged she would have to make – some million yen in penalties. They said if she couldn\u2019t afford, they would contact her parents. The woman was exhausted and vulnerable to the point where she gave in. After the shooting of the film, the production company continued to threaten her, saying they would contact to her parents and school and speaking of \u201cfinancial penalties\u201d. She felt powerless and kept on appearing in pornographic films.<\/p>\n
The woman participated in many pornographic shoots, day after day. She wasn\u2019t informed of any details about the shoots, was naked, had her hands and feet bound by 5 to 6 men, and repeatedly forced to have sexual intercourse with no protection. She cried after every shoot and felt that her human dignity was lost. Because the shootings were extremely intense, she thought that even if she tried to stop them, she would be persuaded and forced anyway. She decided to kill her emotions and obeyed orders so that she would be released as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n
She wants the world to know that a portion of those appearing in pornographic films do so with anguish, and against their will. She expressed hope for a system which ensures appearances based on true consent, not by threats and coercion.<\/p>\n
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Deceiving or deceived, which is worse?<\/strong><\/p>\nKayo Matsumoto, a freelance news reporter, gave a speech at the symposium. Ms. Matsumoto was working at a television station as a news reporter she made headlines for reportedly appearing in a pornographic film. She was forced to cancel her appearances and quit her job. Afterwards, she was unable to work as a news reporter for more than a year. She said the truth behind the story was, when she was a student, she participated in a TV program and agreed to eat candy in front of a camera. Then the clip was used in a pornographic film without permission.<\/p>\n
She spoke about the culture of victim blaming, saying \u201cmany people think you only have yourself to blame for being deceived, but if your parents fell victim to a scam, would you blame your parents for the crime that have happened to them?\u201d She also argued that to make society a better place it was necessary to create a culture where victims could raise their voices against crimes without fear.<\/p>\n
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Results of our policy proposals based on the investigation report<\/strong><\/p>\nHRN is waiting for developments regarding the policy proposals we proposed as part of our investigation report. On June 2, 2016, following the symposium, the Cabinet of Japan approved a written reply, which stated the cabinet office will conduct hearings from civilian groups to determine the extent of the damage, in agreement with notion that forced filming of pornography is \u201cviolence against women\u201d. Additionally, the Intellectual Property Promotion Association (IPPA), which represents Japan’s pornographic film industry, made a statement on June 24, 2016, that based on the proposal from Human Rights Now (HRN), it would move to quickly improve the situation across the entire industry.<\/p>\n
HRN hopes that through the investigation, Japanese society will begin to see the forced filming of pornography as a problem and demand measures in response. HRN will continue its work aimed at protecting dignity of women.<\/p>\n
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Human Rights Now released the investigative report \u201cHuman Rights Violations against Women and Girls manifesting from the Pornographic Film Industry in Japan\u201d on 3 March 2016, resulting in strong public reaction. For the detail of the report, please check this page: http:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/news\/2016\/06\/14\/japan-coerced-filming-of-adult-pornographic-videoshuman-rights-violations-against-women-and-girls-manifested-from-the-adult-pornographic-film-industry-in-japan\/ We investigated a number of cases where women were forced to appear in Japanese pornographic films. It has been frequently reported that many young women who were scouted as TV personalities or models, were deceived, and tricked into performing in pornographic films. Human Rights Now (HRN) conducted an investigation by interviewing the victims and their supporters to determine the facts. We revealed that in many cases, these young […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"countries":[248],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-report","tag-violence-against-women","countries-japan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>To highlight this issue, Human Rights Now (HRN) held a symposium at the House of Councillors at the National Diet of Japan, on May 26, 2016.<\/p>\n