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Author Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973-
Title Occupying power : sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan / Sarah Kovner.
Publication Info Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012.



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Contents Introduction : a special business -- "To transship them to some suitable island" : making policy in the midst of chaos -- Violence, commerce, marriage -- When flesh glittered : selling sex in Sasebo and Tokyo -- Legislating women : the push for a prostitution prevention law -- The high politics of base pleasures : regulating morality for the postwar era -- The presence of the past : controversies over sex work since 1956 -- Conclusion : beyond victimhood.
ISBN 9780804783460 (electronic bk.)
0804783462 (electronic bk.)
9780804776912 (cloth alk. paper)
0804776911
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Author Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973-
Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subject Prostitution -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Sex-oriented businesses -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
Descript 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : map
Content text txt
Media computer c
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Contents Introduction : a special business -- "To transship them to some suitable island" : making policy in the midst of chaos -- Violence, commerce, marriage -- When flesh glittered : selling sex in Sasebo and Tokyo -- Legislating women : the push for a prostitution prevention law -- The high politics of base pleasures : regulating morality for the postwar era -- The presence of the past : controversies over sex work since 1956 -- Conclusion : beyond victimhood.
ISBN 9780804783460 (electronic bk.)
0804783462 (electronic bk.)
9780804776912 (cloth alk. paper)
0804776911
Author Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973-
Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subject Prostitution -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Sex-oriented businesses -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.

Subject Prostitution -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Sex-oriented businesses -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
Descript 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : map
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Contents Introduction : a special business -- "To transship them to some suitable island" : making policy in the midst of chaos -- Violence, commerce, marriage -- When flesh glittered : selling sex in Sasebo and Tokyo -- Legislating women : the push for a prostitution prevention law -- The high politics of base pleasures : regulating morality for the postwar era -- The presence of the past : controversies over sex work since 1956 -- Conclusion : beyond victimhood.
ISBN 9780804783460 (electronic bk.)
0804783462 (electronic bk.)
9780804776912 (cloth alk. paper)
0804776911

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