Yahoo News Stacey Dooley held by Tokyo police filming BBC doc
Stacey Dooley was stopped by police while filming a documentary about child sexual exploitation in Japan.
The BBC Three presenter was held for two hours while filming new doc Young Sex for Sale in Japan, after filming two young schoolgirls in Tokyo.
They were shooting down a street called JK Alley - JK standing for "joshi kosei" (high school girls) - where men can rent time to spend with teenagers.
In the film, she is confronted by two men who ask "no movies" and demand that they delete the footage. However, police then get involved.
Dooley later says to the camera after being released: "So I've just been kept by the police for the past two hours. They held us against our will, they would not let us go."
On the type of people who meet up with young girls, she added: "Those grown men, they intimidated me. I'm nearly 30 years old, a strong woman, so if they do have a relationship with these girls... you know they looked certainly under 18, some of them.
"I'm sure they're quite impressionable, they'd be very easy to manipulate, and if they asked them to do something they didn't want to do, I don't know how confident they'd feel to say no."
The documentary tries to highlight the issue of girls as young as 6 being exploited in Japan.
"It focuses on the fact they only made it illegal to possess child pornography in 2014," Dooley said of the project.
"We set out to try and understand why it took a privileged country like Japan so long to come to this conclusion. Also to see if the change in their law had made any real difference on the ground."
Stacey Dooley Investigates: Young Sex for Sale in Japan is available from Tuesday, February 28 on BBC Three.
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