In March, we first reported about Hasumin Yoshikawa, the former Self-Defense Force nurse who left the service due to sexual harassment, started a career as a porn star, and also ran for a seat in a local assembly in Tokyo.
She ultimately proved unsuccessful in her campaign, despite gaining fame online and giving speeches in her fatigues. However, her adult video debut still came out in early May.
Like all of the gimmicky candidates for the Politician Girls 48 Party, she now has to make a living somehow, and unless you’re make a new porn production every month or so, it won’t pay the bills. (As far as we are aware, she hasn’t made a second AV yet.)
Hasumin Yoshikawa has been open about the fact that she engaged in sex work while a nurse, so she’s also got that to fall back on.
But she recently revealed a consequence to her profession — and an example of the kind of discrimination that adult video performers face.
Unusually, she works in the AV industry under another name, Kasumi Fujimoto, but never hid her real name — perhaps because she was also running for election and her novel background was part of her campaign, as was campaigning against the controversial 2022 porn law — and so it is easy for people to find out about her job.
And apparently landlords don’t like the idea of a tenant who is a porn star.
On May 13, she revealed in a video posted on Twitter that she isn’t able to move homes right now. Whenever she finds a suitable place, she gets rejected when the landlord does a check on her application. She has so far experienced six rejections like this.
Do these potential landlords think she is going to film AV in her rented accommodation? Do they think she will attract “unsavory” types who will damage the property?
Or is it her history with doing sex work that is the issue? Do landlords think she will use the property to meet clients?
If it’s a more general moral objection, we would be very interested to know whether these snobby landlords had themselves ever watched porn or used a sex worker!
