Democracy in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
Published on 21. August 2017
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-87332-397-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Armonk
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
578 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87332-397-0 (9780873323970)
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Gavan McCormack | Yoshio Sugimoto
Democracy in Contemporary Japan
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07/2017
Routledge
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Gavan McCormack | Yoshio Sugimoto
Democracy in Contemporary Japan
E-Book
07/2017
Routledge
€61.99
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Gavan McCormack | Yoshio Sugimoto
Democracy in Contemporary Japan
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01/1987
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Persons
"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.
Content
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.