BI deports Japanese man for human trafficking

MANILA, Philippines - A 61-year-old Japanese man has been sent back to his native country to face charges of alleged trafficking and recruiting of Filipino women who were made to work in nightclubs, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said yesterday.

In a statement, the BI said Teruaki Nasu boarded a Japan Airlines flight to Tokyo on May 16 and was put on the bureau’s blacklist to prevent his return to the Philippines.

Nasu was charged with falsifying public documents and violating Japan’s immigration and refugee recognition law. He is also the subject of an arrest warrant by the Omiya summary court in Saitama prefecture.

BI law and investigation chief Arvin Santos said Nasu was accused of using a non-profit organization called “Apple Tree” as a front for recruiting Filipinas he 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 had children by Japanese men to travel to Japan and demand justice for their plight by filing lawsuits against their ex-lovers.

“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.