Japanese deported for trafficking in ‘Japayukis’

MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Immigration said Friday it had deported a Japanese fugitive wanted in his country for trafficking in Filipino women to work as nightclub workers in Japan.

In a press statement, Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. said Teruaki Nasu, 61, was deported to Tokyo aboard a Japan Airlines flight from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport last May 16.

Nasu, according to David, was expelled pursuant to a summary deportation order issued against him by the BI board of commissioners last April 20.

He was deported at the request of the Japanese Embassy in Manila, which alleged that he facilitated the travel of several Filipino women to Japan without the required working visas.

The embassy said Nasu was charged with falsifying public documents and violating Japan’s immigration and refugee recognition law. For this, he was ordered arrested by the Omiya summary court in Saitama prefecture.

David added that the Japanese was placed on the immigration blacklist to prevent him from re-entering the country.

Lawyer Arvin Santos, BI law and investigation chief, said Nasu was accused of using a nonprofit organization called Apple Tree as a front for recruiting Filipinas that he had hired to work as “guest relations officers” at a nightclub in Gyoda, Japan.

Nasu’s organization advertises itself as a human rights organization that helps former “Japayukis” who have begotten children with Japanese men to travel to Japan and demand justice for their plight by filing lawsuits against their ex-lovers.

However, Nasu allegedly used the organization to recruit “Japayukis,” thus enabling the latter to enter Japan as tourists.

“Thus, Nasu succeeded in obtaining Japanese visas for his recruits who were able to leave by falsifying the purpose of their visit to Japan,” Santos said.