[SNOS-227]

Born clean and becoming a TV announcer, you must have been a winner in life, right? Since you came snooping around the skid row for an interview, you can't complain even if you get envied and raped by day laborers with low income. Rin Mita

A "doya street" is an area dense with cheap, simple lodging houses where day laborers sleep and stay. In a place lined with inns advertising "1 night 2000 yen, color TV and air conditioning/heating included," announcer Rin Mita visits for a report. "I'll get to the reality of the people living in this town," she says. She reports on that town, still in Japan, and the people living there—fellow human beings—with the same gaze as a scholar studying a new species in a distant foreign country. That's her job. Even for her, basking in the glittering, envy-inducing world of showbiz, work can sometimes be tough, hard, and unpleasant. Hiding her grimace behind a smile, keeping her arms as extended as possible to maintain distance from her subjects, she continues the interview. "Okay, that's a wrap!" As soon as the camera stops, she drops her smile and spits 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 people you've looked down on so much? Crept up on in the night, stripped, violated. Forced into mucosal contact. Her cries of refusal ignored. Her calls for help unheard. Raped over and over. Raped by multiple men. Facials. Forcibly raped until her reluctant body responds.