Did indebted families commonly sell daughters into prostitution in Japan?
Upvote:-1
Considering that it is reputed to still occur in rural South-East Asia, I see no reason that it wouldn't have occurred, occasionally at least, in other times and places. This is after all what is meant by white slavery.
However, if you are considering a plot line suggesting that this practice was wide-spread, you will likely get hard push-back from various quarters unless you have hard primary evidence of it's occurrence. That may be hard to come by in the English histories.
Upvote:6
Yes, it was a common practice to sell daughters [and sometimes, wives]. It was widely practiced at least until the mid of Showa period (1950s) so I think it is safe to make it as a major plot line in 1930s-1940s Japan.
In the Edo period (1603-1868) the practice was extremely rampant both in urban and rural areas, and it was considered normal as it was the zeitgeist of the time. However, during the Bakumatsu (opening of Japan) in the early 19th century, Western influence was getting stronger, and there are protests to this practice.
Most protests were elite-driven (from the Westerners and the Western-educated Japanese) though, and even the government legislated Ordinance no. 44 in 1900, daughters [and wives] are still being sold. Especially families in rural areas. There were people that was called Karayuki-san (which means, Ms-Gone-to-China). They were being sold to Asia prostitution traffic - mostly went to China, hence the name.
More post
- 📝 Why didn't early modern Christians object to pagan symbolism in art?
- 📝 Did the Red Army and German Army clash in Poland in 1939?
- 📝 Why were some German and Japanese cities bombed more than others during WW2? Is there a scientific consensus?
- 📝 Why did Burgers' Transvaal try to build rail east?
- 📝 What constitutes a country's military being called a "Defence Force"?
- 📝 Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66: how were the Mudéjars armed?
- 📝 When were both minuscule and majuscule letters used for the first time in the same Latin manuscript?
- 📝 What prevented the Romans from naval expansion?
- 📝 What are the highest and biggest half-timbered buildings built during medieval era?
- 📝 Were there any well known royal dynasties that did not in some way cite religious mandate for their rule?
- 📝 Did Germany have enforced conscription in 1944?
- 📝 Where did Wilson state that the US would have to force access to markets with violence?
- 📝 In 1492, what was the shortest distance you could travel to discover the new world from the old world?
- 📝 What prompted Yamaguchi to split his airgroup when attacking the Americans at Midway?
- 📝 Was the Native American population already decimated before settlers and conquistadors arrived in America?
- 📝 Did Britain briefly recognize Mahmud Barzanji as King of Kurdistan?
- 📝 Did the British somehow imitate the Greek colonizers in India?
- 📝 When did Turkic languages emerge in Central Asia?
- 📝 What is the first example of a Western government passing a sin tax?
- 📝 Why did China not seem to have cared about the Nanking Massacre?
- 📝 Has any financial market voided hours of trading worth over $1 billion USD?
- 📝 Who does Irenaeus call "a certain person among the ancients"?
- 📝 How historically accurate are the Assassin's Creed games?
- 📝 Codification of Sharia by the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century
- 📝 Identifying rising sun pin WW1 or WWII
- 📝 Was there an occasion when nazis turned their backs on a national anthem?
- 📝 Jewish diaspora in the late antiquity
- 📝 Why does the Great Wall of China follow such a bendy route?
- 📝 When did the current 24-hour day cycle begin?
- 📝 How to track down a Spanish/Latin American soldier that fought in wars internationally (18th/19th century)?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Did indebted families commonly sell daughters into prostitution in Japan?
- 📝 Did Japan have secret films about going into the US in the 40s?
- 📝 Did Imperial Japan choose to ally with Nazi Germany because of ideological similarity?
- 📝 WW2: Did US marines and soldiers really go into action with unbuckled helmet chin straps?
- 📝 Why did the USA invade Okinawa instead of one of the many other islands in southern Japan
- 📝 When did the term "Nationality" first come into use? How did ancient civilizations refer to themselves? By ethnicity?
- 📝 Why did the French sell Louisiana?
- 📝 Did the Celts really go into battle naked?
- 📝 How did a besieged city/castle defend itself vs. catapulting diseased dead bodies into it?
- 📝 Why didn't Japan expand into Ezo?
- 📝 When did the Roman Forum fall into disuse?
- 📝 Where did Japan get their oil during WWII?
- 📝 Did the Axis try to "bribe" Turkey into joining them during World War II?
- 📝 Did Mao want to convert written Chinese into a phonetic system?
- 📝 Why did families in 6th century Mecca send their babies to be raised in the desert?
- 📝 In Edwardian England, did poor families arrange to have their children buried in the graves of unrelated adults?
- 📝 Why did the US insist on invading Japan instead of blockading it in WWII?
- 📝 What role did the Ancient Samurai heritage play on Modern Japan during WW2?
- 📝 At what age did samurai children start going into battles in the Sengoku era?
- 📝 Did Britain look into taking California?
- 📝 When did European building interiors partitioned into rooms become commonplace?
- 📝 Did Japan ever pay Russia war reparations after WW2? Why or why not?
- 📝 Did the Huns contribute to the Great Migration of Germanic Peoples into the Western Empire?
- 📝 Why did France put so many resources into fighting Algeria in comparison to its other former colonial holdings?
- 📝 Why did the British have so few destroyers going into World War II?
- 📝 Did Yuri Gagarin really hear a ticking sound during his journey into outer space?
- 📝 Why did Japan not withdraw from China as its pacific front was crumbling and the threat of US invasion imminent?
- 📝 Did Japan have any continental colonies before modern times?
- 📝 Did Japan make a contribution to World War II way out of proportion to its nominal relative GDP?
- 📝 Before modern banking, how did government-issued coins get into everyone's hands?