Occupying Power : Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan.
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops struck Japan like an earthquake, altering both the built environment and the country's psychological landscape. Made especially visible at the time were panpan--streetwalkers--desired by foreign servicemen. Though sex workers became symbols...
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Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; A Note on Names and Nomenclature; Introduction: A Special Business; 1. "To Transship Them to Some Suitable Island": Making Policy in the Midst of Chaos; 2. Violence, Commerce, Marriage; 3. When Flesh Glittered: Selling Sex in Sasebo and Tokyo; 4. Legislating Women: The Push for a Prostitution Prevention Law; 5. The High Politics of Base Pleasures: Regulating Morality for the Postwar Era; 6. The Presence of the Past: Controversies over Sex Work Since 1956; Conclusion: Beyond Victimhood; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.