The Licensed Prostitution System and the Prostitution Abolition Movement in Modern Japan

Fujime, Yuki

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“…Moreover, since masculinism and nationalism were so dominant in the debate over comfort women, many issues concerning women's rights that needed to be addressed were easily overlooked, important issues such as demanding sufficient compensation from the Japanese government, 82 the masculine posture treating women as sexual objects whose purpose is to foster men's psychological security, government complicity in acting as an agent to recruit women to serve the troops' sexual needs, 83 sex trafficking that dupes girls and women into prostitution, 84 or issues of class in the practices of modern prostitution. 85 An intense discussion of comfort women paradoxically turned into intentionally overlooking the subject. This phenomenon was similar to the situation in Korea in the 1990s, in which the dissemination of the stories concerning comfort women simultaneously relegated comfort women to the margins.…”

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Japan as “Self ” or “the Other” in Yoshinori Kobayashi’s On Taiwan

Hwang

2010

China Information

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This article is an attempt to demonstrate how and through which social practices Taiwan’s past colonial experiences have been discursively produced in a certain way and what other alternatives have been excluded from this process. The article scrutinizes the controversy surrounding a Japanese manga On Taiwan, a book that provides a very positive evaluation of the legacy of Japanese colonialism in Taiwan. Through analyzing statements, utterances, and conducts concerning this manga that were produced by those who have various positions, this article aims to comprehend how the discourses of Japanese colonialism and Sino-chauvinism reciprocally conflict and compete with each other in ways that affect people’s self-identification, producing a particular form of subjectivity of Taiwan, while excluding, repressing, and silencing other alternatives.

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Japan as “Self ” or “the Other” in Yoshinori Kobayashi’s On Taiwan

Hwang

2010

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Base Cultures: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Occupied Japan

Kovner

2009

J of Asian Stud

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This article examines how the bodies of Japanese women became a key site of political and cultural contestation during the Allied occupation. The sale of sex, once legally recognized and regulated, became a conspicuous symbol of postwar chaos. Ostracizing sex workers who catered to servicemen provided a means to display an abiding nationalism without directly confronting the occupiers. But these women were also indispensable in the economy of military base cities. Journalists and social critics sought to discern or impose order by devising elaborate taxonomies, cartographies, health regimes, and moral codes. Sex workers were active participants in this process, but their personal testimonies show how their lives defied categorization. When the Diet finally intervened with the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, it was merely the culmination of a long process involving every segment of Japanese society.

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Enlightenment Geisha: The Sex Trade, Education, and Feminine Ideals in Early Meiji Japan

Stanley¹

2013

J of Asian Stud

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During the mid-1870s, fearing the legal innovations of a “civilized” state, geisha and their employers recast Tokugawa-era practices of civic engagement and educational attainment in the language of enlightenment. Proprietors built schools intended to transform geisha into productive and moral mothers, and geisha donated to local educational institutions and suggested that their own studies would lead to self-sufficiency and freedom. These efforts associated geisha with the values of productivity and enlightenment, although similar strategies proved less successful for prostitutes. However, by the 1880s, both geisha and prostitutes were increasingly denied access to education and excluded from ideals of enlightened femininity that were predicated on marriage. This article considers how a group of unlikely actors deployed the Tokugawa past to become civilized, and in the process promoted ideas about the purpose of women's education that would later be expressed by an icon of Meiji modernity: the “good wife, wise mother.”

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The Licensed Prostitution System and the Prostitution Abolition Movement in Modern Japan

Cited by 12 publications

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Japan as “Self ” or “the Other” in Yoshinori Kobayashi’s On Taiwan

Japan as “Self ” or “the Other” in Yoshinori Kobayashi’s On Taiwan

Base Cultures: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Occupied Japan

Enlightenment Geisha: The Sex Trade, Education, and Feminine Ideals in Early Meiji Japan

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