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Sexual assault, depression and attempted suicide might not be what tourists to Japan and even Japanese people themselves associate with the world-famous geishas, traditional entertainers in kimonos with elaborate hair and make-up who are trained in traditional Japanese performing arts. But viral tweets by a former maiko - an apprentice geisha - have highlighted that there is criminal and sexist.

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