Japan-Thai FTA: "Movement of natural persons"

Earlier today in a bookshop I picked a glossy magazine of conservative news type, it may have been "Will", but in honesty I have forgotten.

One of the stories focused on the "vice industry", prostitution in particular, in Japan being controlled by foreigners. A suggestion was made that the Japan-Thailand FTA had made this easier. Dismissing it as conservatism hype, I put the magazine down and moved, but according to more respectable sources - sex workers may indeed find it easier to move (or be moved) to Japan post-FTA (read here).

Then just now, I thought I would read the text of the Japan-Thailand FTA. Sure enough under the "movement of natural persons" is liberalisation of visa requirement for "Spa services." Apparently there is some traditional Thai Spa services for which only a Thai trained and licenced person will do.

But is this for real? It does not take a lot of imagination to see how this could be abused, a massage parlor would simply notify immigration that they had hired a "Thai Spa service provider" to provide "spa services" and then get the visa. In fact it is almost as if the door was left open on purpose. Odd things, these FTAs.