The Justice Ministry will seek tougher screenings of promoters and bar owners hosting foreign singers and dancers who enter Japan with entertainer visas.
The move comes amid criticism that lax entry procedures on entertainers have left room for a hotbed of human trafficking.
Foreign women who have entered Japan as entertainers have been forced to work for low wages as hostesses in bars or nightclubs or to engage in prostitution.
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