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A Japanese Woman's New Zealand Entry Denial Stokes Anxiety Over 'Overseas Sex Work'

A Japanese woman said she was held, drug-tested, interrogated for over six hours, and ultimately denied entry to New Zealand before being sent home. Many Japanese netizens connected the case to suspicion of 'overseas sex work' by Japanese women and lamented a perceived decline in the value of the Japanese passport and the country's economic standing.