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by Sarah Kovner

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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 of certain others, particularly panpan--streetwalkers--who were objects of their desire.

Occupying Power shows how intimate histories and international relations are interconnected in ways scholars have only begun to explore. Sex workers who catered to servicemen were integral to the postwar economic recovery, yet they were nonetheless blamed for increases in venereal disease and charged with diluting the Japanese race by producing mixed-race offspring. In 1956, Japan passed its first national law against prostitution, which produced an unanticipated effect. By ending a centuries-old tradition of sex work regulation, it made sex workers less visible and more vulnerable. This probing history reveals an important but underexplored aspect of the Japanese occupation and its effect on gender and society. It shifts the terms of debate on a number of controversies, including Japan's history of forced sexual slavery, rape accusations against U.S. servicemen, opposition to U.S. overseas bases, and sexual trafficking.

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  • Title Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
  • Author Sarah Kovner
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2012-02-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780804776912 / 0804776911
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Japan - History - Allied occupation,, Prostitution - Japan - History - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011014086
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.740

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  • Choice, 08/01/2012, Page 0

About the author

Sarah Kovner is Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Florida.
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