Pan-pan Girls: Humiliating Liberation in Postwar Japanese Literature
This paper looks at some literary representations of the ‘pan-pan girls’ in postwar Japan. ‘Pan-pan’ is a derogatory term for street prostitutes who (mostly) served the soldiers of the occupying forces. Immediately after World War II, the Japanese government established the RAA (Recreation Amusement...
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| Language: | English |
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UTS ePRESS
2010-09-01
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| Series: | PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/1515 |