Bales has written several papers on human trafficking theory depict which different theoretical propositions relating to the trafficking process. For purposes of this paper, I will only be concerned with analyzing certain aspects of theory which are relevant to the nation of Japan. The entirety of Bales’ theory is not relevant to the situation in Japan, thus some areas of his proposed theory are redundant when applying them in such a context. This is because Bales provides equal detail into the dynamics of both sending and receiving country of human trafficking. However, as Japan is primarily a receiving country of human trafficking, elaborating on issues concerned with receiving countries of human trafficking would be superfluous.Bales’