Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
Issue 4, September 2000  Yamazaki Tomoko  Sandakan Brothel No.
8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese Women
translated by Karen Colligan-Taylor  Armonk and London: M.E.
Sharpe, 1999, xxix, 215 pp. Index. ISBN 0-7656-0354-3  review
essay by James F. Warren  New Lands, Old Ties and Prostitution:
A Voiceless Voice    1. The role of prostitution overseas in
Japan's economic expansion in the Meiji-Taisho period has become
the subject of serious historical investigation. This was not
the case nearly four decades ago when a young Tokyo housewife
turned investigative historian, Yamazaki Tomoko, produced
seemingly out of nowhere one of the most important works on the
history of lower-class Japanese women. Entitled Sandakan
hachiban shokan: teihen joseishi josh, the book presents an
inside account of a Karayuki-san, a Japanese peasant girl who
went 'south' into the Nanyo (literally 'South Pacific', but
referring more specifically to Southeas