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This 8 page paper examines prostitution in Japanese culture, and argues that because Japan at one time licensed prostitutes for "use" by servicemen, and because sex tourists are mostly men, prostitution in Japan is run largely by men. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that for many years there was a licensed prostitution system in place, which meant that it was government supported, if not always wholeheartedly supported. This paper discusses prostitution in Japanese
culture. Discussion The idea of licensing prostitutes is not new; "a combination of compulsory venereal disease examinations and a registration system for prostitutes, began in the West during the Napoleonic
era" (Yuki and Ross, 1997, p. 135). This system was based on the need, in Europe during the 19th century, to regulate women "in hopes of preserving the battle potential
of military troops" (Yuki and Ross, 1997, p. 135). The idea was to make sure that if the soldiers visited prostitutes, the women would be clean and free of disease
so as not to weaken the men; this idea of having "approved" women near the battlefield for the soldiers is still in place today-though unacknowledged. The system spread to
Britain by the 1860s, and as advanced capitalist nations, including Britain, began to look to Asia as a trading partner or otherwise opening up the East, "licensed prostitution systems were
introduced by colonial officials to territories under colonial rule, including Bombay, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai" (Yuki and Ross, 1997, p. 135). Although Britain abolished prostitution within its borders in
1886, "it maintained the system in its colonies" (Yuki and Ross, 1997, p. 135). The United States never instituted such a nationwide system, but "U.S. military and colonial officials, too,
conducted periodic medical examinations of Filipina prostitutes whose customers were in the American navy during the U.S. occupation of the Philippines (Yuki and Ross, 1997, p. 136). The modern system
in Japan was put in place during the Meiji period (1868-1912) and incorporated many features of the premodern system, "including the maintenance of red-light districts like Tokyos Yoshiwara, continued patronage
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