Sandakan Brothel No.8: Journey into the History of Lower-class Japanese Women

by TomokoYamazaki (Author), KarenF.Colligan-Taylor (Translator)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $49.34

  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.