Sandakan Brothel No.8: Journey Into the History of Lower-Class Japanese Women by Karen F. Colligan-Taylor, Tomoko Yamazaki

Sandakan Brothel No.8: Journey Into the History of Lower-Class Japanese Women

Karen F. Colligan-Taylor, Tomoko Yamazaki

264 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction emotional informative slow-paced
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This is a pioneering work on "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. The narrative follows the life of one such prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cle...

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