Democracy in Contemporary Japan

by Gavan Mc Cormack (Author), YoshioSugimoto (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1986

  $164.72

  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.