“Is this a good job?” That had to rank as one of dumbest questions in the history of modern journalism. I’d put it to a young woman who’d just served me a drink at Zanzibar, a hostess bar ...

They are eager to do a good job. Not too long ago they all worked in Cambodia’s sex trade: brothels, karaoke bars or hostess bars. They often start them young in Cambodia.

Two Japanese men and a Thai woman were arrested Thursday for allegedly forcing seven Cambodian women to work in hostess bars in Gunma Prefecture last year, police said.