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

The Licensed Prostitution System and the Prostitution Abolition Movement in Modern Japan positions 5:' 0 1997 by Duke University Press. positions 5: 1 Spring 1997 periodic medical examinations of Filipina prostitutes whose customers were in the American navy during the US. occupation of the Philippines. Put in place during the Meiji period (1868-1912), the modern Japanese licensed prostitution system incorporated many elements of the premodern system, including the maintenance of red-light districts like Tokyo’s Yoshiwara, continued patronage by government officials, and the persistence of inhumane treatment of prostitutes at the hands of brothel owners and government officials. Once enmeshed in world capitalist trends as part of its drive to create a modern nation-state after the opening of the country in I 868, however, Japan reorganized its licensed prostitution system according to European models. Until now, most research on the licensed prostitution system and the Prostitution Abolition in Japan has understood the modern Japanese licensed prostitution system as a continuation of the premodern prostitution system. Viewing the system as uniquely Japanese and as predating Western contact, this research relies implicitly upon the belief that licensed prostitution did not exist in the “civilized countries of the West,” and creates the illusion that the existence of a modern Japanese licensed prostitution system demonstrated http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

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

Yuki, Fujime
positions asia critique , Volume 5 (1) – Mar 1, 1997
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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1527-8271
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10.1215/10679847-5-1-135
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positions 5:' 0 1997 by Duke University Press. positions 5: 1 Spring 1997 periodic medical examinations of Filipina prostitutes whose customers were in the American navy during the US. occupation of the Philippines. Put in place during the Meiji period (1868-1912), the modern Japanese licensed prostitution system incorporated many elements of the premodern system, including the maintenance of red-light districts like Tokyo’s Yoshiwara, continued patronage by government officials, and the persistence of inhumane treatment of prostitutes at the hands of brothel owners and government officials. Once enmeshed in world capitalist trends as part of its drive to create a modern nation-state after the opening of the country in I 868, however, Japan reorganized its licensed prostitution system according to European models. Until now, most research on the licensed prostitution system and the Prostitution Abolition in Japan has understood the modern Japanese licensed prostitution system as a continuation of the premodern prostitution system. Viewing the system as uniquely Japanese and as predating Western contact, this research relies implicitly upon the belief that licensed prostitution did not exist in the “civilized countries of the West,” and creates the illusion that the existence of a modern Japanese licensed prostitution system demonstrated

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Published: Mar 1, 1997

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