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Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan Lieba Faier
Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan
Lieba Faier
Explores the changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. This book investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars - where initially they were disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners - came to be identified by the local residents as traditional Japanese brides.
304 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 1 map, 2 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 10, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520252158 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 151 × 226 × 20 mm · 420 g |
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