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.
ISBN: | 9780873323628 |
Publication date: | 1st January 1987 |
Author: | Murray Yanowitch |
Publisher: | M.E. Sharpe an imprint of Taylor & Francis Inc |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 288 pages |
Genres: |
Sociology Social classes |