Democracy in Contemporary Japan

by Gavan McCormack, Yoshio Sugimoto

Overview

This title was first published in 1986: This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873323987
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1987
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

"Sandakan Hachiban Shokan" received the Fourth Oya Shoichi Prize for Non-Fiction Literature and it has been translated into Korean and Chinese, and a movie based on it, "Sandakan Hachiban Shokan Boyoko", was produced by Kumai Kei in 1974.

Table of Contents

This title was first published in 1986: This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.