Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan

ISBN-13: 9780815394693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 182 str.

Caroline Norma

Opis

This book provides an overview of the Japanese sex industry in the years of Japan’s postwar economic boom. It argues that the origins of gender inequality in contemporary Japan resulted from the policies put in place during this period.

Spis treści

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Corporate subcontracting of sexual and social imperatives Chapter 2: Finding the state in the sex industry of the high growth era Chapter 3: The 1950s new deal of the post-occupation patriarchal state Chapter 4: Ian Ryokou workplace getaway trips Chapter 5: Hostess bars and corporate entertaining in the 1960s Chapter 6: Corporate kisaeng prostitution tourism Conclusion: Prostitution as an institution of the peacetime state