Overview
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.
- | Author: Gavan McCormack
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Aug 21, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0873323971
- | ISBN-13: 9780873323970
