Democracy in Contemporary Japan

by Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873323971
• ISBN13: 9780873323970
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"