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Sandakan Brothel No.8: Journey into the History of Lower-class Japanese Women Tomoko Yamazaki 1st edition
Sandakan Brothel No.8: Journey into the History of Lower-class Japanese Women
Tomoko Yamazaki
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.
256 pages, photographs, map, index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 30, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780765603548 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 264 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 154 × 24 mm · 386 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Colligan-taylor, Karen F. |
| Translator | Colligan-taylor, Karen F. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Usa) |