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Sandakan brothel no. 8
an episode in the history of lower-class Japanese women
By Yamazaki, Tomoko & Colligan-Taylor, Karen
- ISBN
- 978-0-76560-354-8
- Publisher
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1999.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 1999
Yamazaki records the life story of Osaki, a karayuki-san, the term for rural Japanese women sold into overseas prostitution between the 1860s and 1930s. Sent to Sandakan, North Borneo at age ten, she shared a fate with thousands of other young women in the name of Japanese colonial expansion. Like many of them, Osaki sent all her earnings home. Bu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
