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.
- ISBN10 0873324684
- ISBN13 9780873324687
- Publish Date 31 January 1987 (first published 1 January 1987)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint M.E. Sharpe
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English