Female foreigners are OK in Japan, so long as they're not Asian | The Japan Times Online: "Last May, when Shigeru Yokota visited South Korea to meet the mother of the North Korean husband of his abducted daughter Megumi, he was also invited to meet former sex slaves. In a letter to Yokota, a South Korean politician, perhaps advancing his own agenda, sympathized with Yokota's suffering and said Yokota could gain incalculable goodwill from the Korean people if he acknowledged 'the thousands of Megumis' who were kidnapped during Japan's colonial rule. For whatever reason, Yokota didn't meet with any sex slaves. Somebody assumed it wasn't in his interest, or Japan's."