previous year). In addition, all of the victims who were in violation of the Immigration Control Act were granted special permission to stay in Japan (Table 46).

The number of victims has declined significantly since 2005, when the Immigration Bureau started the survey and protected 115 victims, and the number has been hovering around 10 victims in recent years, and this is thought to be because the entire government has come together to work on measures under the Action Plans for Measures against Trafficking in Persons, and owing to the fact that measures to prevent and eradicate trafficking in persons, such as the revision of the Ordinance on Criteria pertaining to the status of residence of “Entertainer” and the implementation of strict landing examinations after the same year, have had a certain level of effect (Table 47).

Table 46 Number of victims of trafficking in persons (2014)

(People)

BreakdownNationality/Region	Recognized as a victim of trafficking in persons	Total
Foreign nationals previously in possession of a status of residence	Violators of the Immigration Control Act (Special Permission to Stay in Japan)
Philippines	4	3(3)	7
Thailand	0	1(1)	1
Rwanda	1	0	1
Total	5	4(4)	9

$ ^{*1} $ The victims were all women.

(*2) The breakdown by status of residence of foreign nationals previously in possession of a status of residence was “Temporary Visitor”, 2

persons; “Spouse or Child of Japanese National”, 1 person; “Long-Term Resident”, 1 person; “Dependent”, 1 person.

$ ^{*3} $ There are some cases where those who had a status of residence were made to enter Japan under the guise of engaging in activities with the status of residence of “Spouse or Child of Japanese National” and, without engaging in the activities corresponding to the status of residence, were forced into prostitution after entry into Japan.

$ ^{*4} $ The type of violation of the 4 foreign nationals granted special permission to stay was “illigally overstaying”, 4 persons.

$ ^{*5} $ The breakdown of the statuses of residence, etc. before staying illegally beyond the authorized period of stay was two foreign nationals with the status of residence of “Temporary Visitor” and two foreign nationals with “Permission for Landing at a Port of Call”.

Table 47 Changes in the number of victims of trafficking in persons

(People)

Year Breakdown	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Total	115	29	21	9	12	9
Foreign nationals previously in possession of a status of residence	68	23	6	8	8	5
Violators of the Immigration Control Act (Special permission to stay in Japan)	47(47)	6(6)	15(15)	1(1)	4(4)	4(4)

## $ ^{3} $ Foreign Nationals Deported for Committing Trafficking in Persons $ * $

In 2014, the National Police Agency, Ministry of Justice, Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Japan Coast Guard established the “Task Force for the Enforcement of Laws and Regulations Relating to Trafficking in Persons”, and this task force has been conducting improved information sharing and cooperation in order to ensure crackdowns on human trafficking-related offenses, and consequently, two foreign nationals were deported by the Immigration Bureau as perpetrators of human trafficking in the same year (one person in the previous year), and whose nationality was Thailand.