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This seems timely.
>It started simple enough for Hyper Misao.
She needed a loan from a friend. A few thousand yen to pay off a parking ticket. Then she learned her friend really didn't have that money. Then she learned her friend had debts of her own, debts that went all the way to the underground and beyond.
Soon enough her friend defaulted on those debts and included Misao as a guarantor on them. The collectors came every day at 4:00pm - some of them polite, others scar faced Zainichi that loudly discussed her debts on the front stoop. It became too much after a week of this and finally one of them offered her a deal - spend one night with a foreigner, allow them to film it and her debts would be forgiven. All she had to do was make dinner, treat him well and accommodate any "reasonable requests". She knew what it meant. They promised, falsely as she learned too late, that her face would be edited out and no one in Japan would ever know who she even was...