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TOKYO − A bus in a standout pink has been serving as a shelter for teenage girls
hanging out in Tokyo's major entertainment areas at night since mid-October to protect
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The camper-like bus, dubbed Tsubomi (Bud) Cafe, with owers painted on its exterior,o ers free meals and drinks as well as a space to chat exclusively for teenage girls inthe Shinjuku and Shibuya districts. Many of the girls have been neglected by theirparents due to poverty or are the victims of abuse.
Members of civic group Colabo are on hand to o er advice to the girls.
The bus made its rst appearance on Oct. 17 in the Kabukicho red-light district inShinjuku Ward. A smiling Colabo sta member asked two girls looking curiously at thebus to come in, saying, "You can eat inside."
By 10 p.m. that night, 15 girls had visited the bus to eat, talk, and confess their worries
to the sta .
"We'd like to establish relationships" with such young girls rather than o er living
assistance as such, said Colabo representative Yumeno Nito, 28, who also had aproblem with her family and wandered around red-light districts at night when she wasa teenager.
"I hope (the bus) will be a place where girls can relax, feel at ease and hang out as theyare," said Nito.
The concept of the nighttime bus for vulnerable young girls originally came from Seoul.
When Nito visited the South Korean capital and saw girls similarly in trouble chatting
and eating Korean pancakes in a bus she decided to introduce the idea in Tokyo.
The bus will park once a week either in Shinjuku or Shibuya. The project has beenchosen as a model for supporting vulnerable young women by the central government
and the Tokyo metropolitan government
Seiko Kitazawa, head of Shinjuku Ward's gender equality promotion division, said she
has seen girls come to Shinjuku after no longer feeling secure in their homes due topoverty or abuse.
Kitazawa stressed the importance of peer support. "If we say 'We are from the wardo ce and we'll help you,' I'm sure no one would accept the assistance. People close totheir age need to approach them and create a chance to give support," she said.
Nito echoed that view. "Some girls seem to feel uncomfortable receiving public aid asthey distrust adults, so we are the ones who should try to go out to see and talk tothem," she said.
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Yukiko Sakamoto, head of a local group supporting the rehabilitation of o enders,joined Colabo's bus project on the rst day.
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reasons for not being able to go back home," said Sakamoto. "Some of them su erfrom sexual violence committed by fathers or stepbrothers and others are shut out by
their mothers' boyfriends."
Sakamoto said she was surprised when she heard the color of the bus would be pink.
"But it's important to stand out to attract passengers. Yumeno really wants to savethose girls," she said.
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