[New Program] Undercover Report “DEEP Mekong – Risako Yasu’s Commentary on Southeast Asia” starts streaming on October 18th! The first session also saw Japanese customers: “Child Prostitution in Laos”
8bitNews Press release: October 17, 2025 To Members of the Press [New Program] Undercover Report “DEEP Mekong – Risako Yasu’s Commentary on Southeast Asia” Starts Streaming on October 18th! In the first episode, Japanese customers were also featured in “Laotian Child Prostitution.” Reporter Yasu Risako goes undercover to investigate “The Reality of Child Prostitution in Laos.” 8bitNews Co., Ltd. https://img.youtube.com/vi/KmWYSU16c6g/sddefault.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmWYSU16c6g “DEEP Mekong – Risako’s Commentary on Southeast Asia” is an undercover reportage program by freelance journalist Risako Tai, who has extensive experience reporting on Southeast Asia.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNkf-y-DWh4 The first location was Laos. A 10-year-old girl was waiting for customers. What is happening between poverty and corruption, and what can Japanese people who support children there say? Risako Yasui, who has been reporting in Southeast Asia for over 10 years, will be infiltrating the deep areas of the Mekong region, which are difficult to access, and reporting on them in the new 8bitNews program “DEEP Mekong – Risako Yasui’s Commentary on Southeast Asia.”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/122945/12/122945-12-4942157bc8cedec11c79a73a04ddc137-3016×1688.png This report will be conducted with Yasu’s face hidden to avoid interfering with Yasu’s undercover reporting. Yasu Risako Profile From 2013 to 2015, she translated overseas news at a television station, and from 2015 to 2021, she worked as a reporter for a Kyodo News Group media outlet that distributes economic information on Asia. After five years stationed in Thailand, she became independent in October 2021. As a freelance journalist, she writes about humanitarian issues in Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. Previous reports Undercover investigation into a “girl brothel hotel” in Laos…! The room is filled with “teenage girls”… The true nature of the influx of Japanese pedophiles and their shocking excuses (Gendai Business) https://gendai.media/articles/-/154001#google_vignette A huge amount of sexual photos of young girls…! [Child Prostitution in Laos] Japanese Pedophiles Are Exchanging Information on Blogs and Social Media in a Shocking Way (Gendai Business)
https://gendai.media/articles/-/155434 I “applied” to a fraud organization on the Thai-Myanmar border and found out…! “Monthly salary of 400,000 yen” “Sushi and pork cutlet curry available”…! Shocking Tactics to Lure Japanese People (Gendai Business)
https://gendai.media/articles/-/17821 “Prepared to sell their organs” “Drugged and in a daze…” Japanese women who “disappeared” near the Thai border “found barefoot in the forest” (NEWS Post Seven) https://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20250113_2017028.html/5#google_vignette If things continue like this, Korean society will not be able to survive… Why the number of illegal Thai immigrants is rapidly increasing in South Korea, where the birth rate is 0.72 (President Online) https://president.jp/articles/-/79333?page=1 In Singapore, a man was “caned” for sexually assaulting a local female university student, and a female caddy was victimized at a Thai golf course…! Sexual assault and harassment cases against local women by Japanese men spark controversy in Southeast Asia (Gendai Business)
https://gendai.media/articles/-/136001 The hidden thoughts of Myanmar refugees who continue to sing the Japanese song “Kanpai” [Local Report] (AERA.com) https://dot.asahi.com/articles/-/62452 From laundering money obtained through fraud to buying and selling tools such as stun guns and leg irons…! A “highly dangerous company” supporting Cambodian criminal organizations may be expanding into Japan (Gendai Business)
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