Democracy in Contemporary Japan

by Gavan McCormack (Editor), Yoshio Sugimoto (Editor)

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.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1986