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.
| ISBN: | 9780873323628 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1987 |
| Author: | Murray Yanowitch |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 275 pages |
| Genres: |
Social classes Sociology |