Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
by
Sarah Kovner
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years following the war's end. In fact, the presence of foreign servicemen also heightened the visibility...