...Sidney Xu Lu This article examines campaigns aimed at abolishing Japanese overseas prostitution in Manchuria and North America during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, focusing on the ideologies and practices of Japanese middle-class abolitionists. It argues that campaigns...

... expansion overseas, women were engaged in prostitution in Taiwan, Korea, China, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, and North America. Among the Japanese women who voyaged to South- east Asia some were registered as prostitutes and examined...

.... And this leads readers to the final essay in this general issue, “The Shame of Empire: Japanese Overseas Prostitutes and Prostitution Abolition in Modern Japan, 1880s – 1927.” Sidney Xu Lu’s history of Japanese middle-­ class prostitution abolition...

... the country most directly linked to this economy, and Fil- ipina entertainers there are commonly identified by the derogatory term Japayuki, which is understood as “sex workers,” “prostitutes,” and “putas” bound for Japan (see below...

... tion abolition movement. As industrializing Japan began in the 1880s to join the world capitalistic system by expanding its overseas enterprises, so too did it expand its licensed brothels and prostitutes, who were commonly known...

... sexualities into working-class service labors, such as male/female prostitution, other sexualized service work, and military labor. South Korean military proletarian labor, reconstituted as a supraclass, ethnonational masculinity, functioned simultaneously as an intranational class surrogate labor...

... South Korean citizens.16 In this sense, I concur with Jinkyung Lee’s argument that US military overseas deployment can be conceptualized as another form of migrant labor. As she states, “If South Korean military prostitution now includes...

... affairs, divorce, date rape, love suicide, domestic violence, prostitution, and homosexuality, though the narratives are often coupled with discussions of women’s feminine nature, their psychology, their sexuality, and their social role.6...

... of their past experience of extreme poverty in rural China. Many of their parents were so poor that they had to sell their daughters or send teenage sons overseas to earn a living. To be a “wealthy man,”zuosan in Teochiu, is a lifelong goal...

... prostitution domestic work Reproductive Labor at the Intersection of Three Intimate Industries: Domestic Work, Sex Tourism, and Adoption Nicole Constable Introduction Estranged from her husband in Indonesia, Mia1 came from central Java to work in Hong Kong...

... context. The ideological acts of the female protagonists, with their own depictions of risk perception and risk management, allow the characters' adaptation to the quicksand conditions of their fluctuating financial affairs. Issues on tourism, prostitution, labor flexibility, and the social practices...

... and culture — and become visible again in the s: the poor, street chil- dren, delinquents, prostitutes, criminals, and overseas Vietnamese. The lm represents spaces of the street, of crime, of the underground economy. These spaces appear immediately...

... directed Macho Dancer (1989). This film follows its male protagonist as he travels to urban Manila, finds work as a prostitute, and becomes involved in a coworker’s search for a lost sister. Mendez became embroiled in issues of censorship over...

... will see that the Japanese bourgeoisie is using licensed prostitutes as frontline troops! 111 Likewise, the Choso’n ilbo railed against Japan as a “nation for which prostitution is an overseas development policy,”ll2 and also asserted...

... 1800, is rooted in the knowledge of noncontemporaneities which exist at a chronologically uniform timeThecontemporaneity of the non- contemporaneous, initially a result of overseas expansion, became a basic framework for the progressive...

... and orphans. In 1955, Harry Holt began a small rescue opera- tion of children orphaned by the war. Tens of thousands of orphans were subsequently sent overseas for adoption by American and European fam- ilies. As the years passed, the South...

... conjurable embodiment of “garment worker,” “factory girl,” “G.I. prostitute,” this Asian female work- ing body is simultaneously erased of historical and material specificities and exported and circulated as a spectacular signifier of broader...

... drama, when “documenting social evils” (particularly prostitution) was a rallying cry for progressive artists. These three films were written by the same scriptwriter, Ricardo “Ricky” Lee, whose (heterosexual) commitment to social reform...

...,” or “race” (dân tộc) — by purchasing sex with a white prostitute. Unlike other Vietnamese agents who are sent overseas, Văn Bình’s experience in inter- national warfare has prepared him to make the most of his free time in “avenging the nation...

..., some overseas visitors say our children should be sheltered and we shouldn’t be talking to them about prostitution and such matters. But in our society, the children already know all about these thing2 Children who do not fit...