Kiyoha Kiritaka, now 23 years old, told FRIDAY Digital, “I want what I went through to end.” It was a sudden tweet on June 26. “I may be erased from this world, but this is the reality of maiko. At the age of 16 years old I was forced to drink so much alcohol, and I was forced to take a mixed bath with my customers. (I escaped as fast as I could.) I would like you to reconsider whether this is really traditional culture.” This comment by a former maiko calling herself “Kiyoha” was immediately retweeted more than 130,000 times and liked more than 310,000 times. She continued to tweet, and the story gradually became clearer. Just before graduating from junior high school, she entered an Okiya as a “trainee” and made her debut as a maiko “Ichikoma” in November at the age of 16. She worked as a maiko for the next eight months, where she experienced a variety of sexual and power harassment from both customers and the Okiya under the name of “tradition” No matter how much she tries to defend it as “cultural,” it is a violation of the Labor Standards Law, and if she is to be believed, the treatment she received at the Okiya is abuse of a minor.