Born Pretty And Ending Up As A TV News Anchor—she Must Have Had It Made In Life, Right? Since She Went And Showed Up In The Red-light District For A Story, She Can’t Really Complain If She Gets Envied By Low-income Day Laborers And Gets Raped, Can She? Mita Marin

"Doya-gai" refers to an area where cheap, simple lodging houses are densely packed, primarily used by day laborers for sleeping. 2000 yen per night. Includes color TV and air conditioning! Hotels with such signs line the streets. Announcer Marin Sada came to this doya-gai for a report. "I will get to the reality of the people living in this town." She covers the town, which exists in the same Japan, and the people living there, who are the same human beings, with a gaze like a scholar studying a new species in a distant foreign country. Because that is her job. Even for her, who is in the glittering, enviable entertainment industry, work can sometimes be painful, tough, and unpleasant. Hiding her grimace with a smile, stretching her arm as far as possible to keep distance from the interviewee, she continues the interview. "Okay, that's a wrap!" The moment the camera stops, she drops her smile and blurts out the words she's been holding in to the staff. "Why do I have to come to a place like this?" What must it feel like to be raped by the very people you looked down on so much? Lured out at night, stripped, and violated. Forcibly made to have mucous membranes touch. Her cries of refusal are ignored. Her calls for help go unheard. She is violated over and over. Violated by multiple men. Facialed. Forcibly violated until her reluctant body responds.