History of Japanese Nanyang Sisters

Evaluation of Nanyang Sister’s Incident

From the end of Meiji (1897) to the beginning of Taisho (1920), in order to accumulate funds for the development of capitalism, the Japanese Communist Party used trafficking* ** Going overseas as a means of obtaining foreign exchange. Nanyang, especially the Sandakan area, is an area where Japanese *** are relatively concentrated. These women who are forced into prostitution are called "Nanyang Sisters". They earned foreign exchange for the country, but their fate left them with unhealable mental and physical wounds.

Since the 1920s, due to Japan's victory in World War I, Japan's domestic economic development and the international community's appeal for the rights of women and children, the activity of trafficking in sex has declined day by day. At this time, a large number of Nanyang sisters returned to Japan. However, after they returned to their country, they were ostracized by the people across the country and even their own relatives, and they had to live alone in remote places. When did Japanese women go to Southeast Asia for prostitution?

1. They were sent out by the Japanese government to earn foreign exchange for their country. Although they contributed to the country, they were shunned by their relatives and society after they returned home. Discrimination and abandonment.

2. The old Japanese movie "Looking Homeward" reflects this period of history. It is a novel about a "Nanyang sister" interviewed by a Japanese female writer in Kyushu, Japan. The film is adapted from the novel. .

3. In Japan, they are called からゆきさん (唐行きさん), also known as "Women's Army" in Japanese. Most of them were children of poor farmers and fishermen. The voyage to Southeast Asia occurred in the late 19th century and was abolished in 1920. The locations include Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and other places. In 1972, the writer Tomoko Yamazaki wrote the book "Surcon Eight Banner Prostitute House". . Later it was criticized by international politics as "a national shame".

4. Related books published in Japan are as follows:

"Purchasing a human body? A woman who works overseas?" Mori Katsumi, Showa 34 (1959), Shibundo

"The Wanderings of a Prostitute Overseas" Miyaoka Kenji, Showa 43 (1968), Trinity Shobo

"からゆきさん" Morizaki Kazue, Showa 51 (1976), Asahi Shimbun

『Sonoko 8th Prostitute House』 Yamazaki Tomoko Showa 47 (1972) Chikuma Shobo

"Muraoka Iheiji Jiden" Kawai Jie 35 Showa (1960) Nanfangsha

『 "ザンジバルのwomen's Army (からゆきさん)" Shiraishi Souji Heisei 7 (1995) Social Thought Society

"カナダジバルの女子军" Miyoko Kudo 1983 (1983) Jingwen Society

『北のからゆきさん』 Kurahashi Masaru Heisei 1st Year (1989) ***栄书馆

"The History of the Detachment of Women" Yamada Toyoko 1992 Heisei 4th Year (1992) Kojinsha Inventory of Comforts A review of the historical events of how comfort women received the Japanese army

The comfort women system was an institutionalized criminal act committed by Japanese warlords that violated humanitarianism, gender ethics, and war conventions.

The comfort women system implemented by Japan is the ugliest, dirtiest, and darkest page in human history in the 20th century, and it is also the most painful record in the history of women in the world. During World War II, Japanese militarism committed three major crimes against humanity, including the infamous Bacteriology Unit - 731, which used living people for experiments; the Nanjing Massacre - the massacre of more than 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians; and the Japanese military's "comfort women" ”——The military slave system is the greatest shame in human history in the 20th century.

Japanese militarism forced mainland China, Taiwan, North Korea, various parts of Southeast Asia and a small number of white women to serve as comfort women for the army. This is obviously fundamentally different from voluntarily becoming military prostitutes. The former was raped under the bayonet of the Japanese army. The result of forced persecution was that the Japanese army organized and planned forced conscription or fraudulent conscription, and the latter was mainly a voluntary act based on economic interests. Evidence shows that in addition to being used as high-intensity slaves, comfort women also suffered from sexually transmitted diseases. Some comfort pictures show that North Korean comfort women suffered lifelong infertility due to multiple abortions. Due to insufficient human resources in Japan, Comfort women also served as nurses from time to time, and porters were even armed as cannon fodder. Sometimes they were even shot to death en masse in order to cover up evidence of crimes.

After liberation, comfort women were often criticized. According to some comfort women, some compatriots called them "Japanese ***". "Comfort Women Investigation Records" records that comfort woman Yuan Zhulin was accused by neighborhood committee cadres of being a Japanese prostitute in 1958 and ordered to go to Beidahuang. Her local household registration was revoked and her house was confiscated.

During the Cultural Revolution in China, the surviving comfort women often suffered severe discrimination and a considerable degree of persecution and humiliation. Please adopt. What is the name of the Japanese movie in the 1980s where the character is called Akipo?

"Looking Home"? From the end of the Shogunate to the beginning of the Showa era, a large number of girls from poor families in Japan were trafficked to Nanyang to work as prostitutes, and were known as "Nanyang Sisters" in the world.

Their fate was rough and they suffered all the humiliation in the world.

Some people die in a foreign country, and some people still have to bear the contempt of the world even if they return to their hometown.

In order to investigate and unravel this period of history, the female historian Keiko Mitani (played by Kurihara Komaki) visited the town of Kyatsu in Amakusa, Kyushu. However, her interview did not go well. Elderly people who experienced that era They all kept silent about this and kept it secret. Occasionally, she met Azaki Po (played by Tanaka Kinuyo) who had been a Nanyang sister in a roadside cold drink shop. After a period of trial and interaction, the old woman who had kept her heart closed finally opened her heart to Keiko and looked back at that time together. A sad past that cannot be looked back on... A Japanese film

Title: Wangxiang [Archive] Original name: Wangxiang, Sandakan 8 Brothel English name: Sandakan No.8, Sandakan 8 More Chinese titles: Sandakan 8 No. More foreign film titles: Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo Brothel 8 Brothel No. 8 Sandakan House No. 8 Sandakan No. 8 Based on the novel of the same name by Yamazaki Tomoko Screenwriter: Hirosawa, Kumai Kei Director: Kumai Kei Photography: Kanyu Manji Starring: Award records for Tanaka Kinuyo, Kurihara Komaki, Takahashi Yoko, and Tanaka Ken: won the 1974 Japanese "Film Weekend" Best Film, Best Director Award/Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award/1974 Oscar Best Foreign Language Award Film Award nomination.

[Edit this paragraph][Plot] A giant passenger plane landed at the Malaysian airport. Keiko Mitani, an expert on Japanese Asian history, stepped off the plane and was greeted by Yamamoto from the Agricultural Laboratory.

They drove to the "Sandakan Hakka Club". Yamamoto told Keizi that this was the former site of Sandakan No. 8 brothel. Looking at the abandoned old building, Keiko remembered the time she spent with Asaki Po in Amakusa, Kyushu Island, three years ago for a research project on the history of Asian women who sold themselves overseas.

Three years ago, Keiko traveled almost all over Amakusa to get first-hand information about Japanese women being sold overseas. However, because the locals avoided the matter, Keiko found nothing. Just when she was about to leave in disappointment, she unexpectedly met Azaki Po.

Azaki is over seventy years old, smokes and loves to chat, but as soon as someone brings up the topic of the Nanyang sister who was sold overseas as a prostitute, she will turn around and leave. Keiko met Azaki Po in a tavern and decided to chat with her.

Azaki Po invites Keiko to her home as a guest. She lives alone in a thatched house with only a few abandoned cats for company.

The interior furnishings are shabby and shabby, and the roof is covered with spider webs. Keiko said that she wanted to stay for a few more days, and Asaki Po was very happy. She was lonely and would like to have someone to keep her company.

Keiko helped Azaki Po work during the day and chatted together at night. Azaki Po finally opened her heart to Keiko. It turned out that Azaki was born in a poor family in Amakusa. She lost her father when she was 6 years old. In order to make a living, her mother took her and her brother Yasuyoshi to marry Azaki's uncle, but life was still very difficult.

In order to make money, redeem the land, build a big house, and marry a good wife for his brother, Azaki went to Nanyang with the trafficker Taro. After Azaki arrived in Borneo in Southeast Asia, he was sold to brothel No. 8 and worked as a prostitute.

14-year-old A Qi, with heavy makeup on her face, was forced to start her career as a Nanyang sister in a simple and shabby room. She tried to resist, but she had to endure the beatings and threats in silence.

In this way, Azaki spent five years of miserable prostitution career in Nanyang. Later, she fell in love with a young man named Takeyama Hideo. Hideo promised to redeem her body and marry her when he made enough money, but he disappeared as soon as he left.

With the recovery of Japan's economy, the heyday of earning foreign exchange from Nanyang sisters gradually passed, and brothels began to decline. Finally, the brothel changed hands several times and ended up in the hands of Aju Ma, the proprietress with a background in politics.

Before she died, the kind-hearted Aju’s mother distributed her life’s savings from selling herself to her sisters, and asked everyone not to return to Japan. She built tombstones for her sisters there. Aqi didn't listen to Aju's mother. She missed her hometown and relatives too much.

But when she returned to her hometown full of longing, no one came to pick her up. In the newly built big house, her brother and sister-in-law reluctantly received her.

Unintentionally, Azaki heard people talking privately. It turned out that his brother and sister-in-law disliked Azaki and were worried that she would take back the house that Azaki paid for. Like a bolt from the blue, Azaki never imagined that her brother who loved her so much would become so heartless. She couldn't help but despair. From then on, she began to give up on herself, drink alcohol all day long, and cry bitterly at the beach when she was drunk.

Later, Azaki immigrated to Northeast China, where she married a cobbler and gave birth to a son named Yongzhi. After Japan's defeat and surrender, Azaki's husband unfortunately died of illness on the way back to China.

After returning to China, Azaki first lived with his son in Kyoto, but his grown-up son felt that the reputation of his mother, who had been a prostitute, was not good, so he sent Azaki back to Amakusa. The son has been married for 9 years, but Azaki has not seen her daughter-in-law yet.

Keiko was deeply moved by what happened to Asaki, and she sincerely called Asaki "Mom". Azaki asked for the handkerchief Keiko used as a souvenir.

She pressed the handkerchief tightly to her face and burst into tears. At the end of the film, Keiko, accompanied by Yamamoto, came to the forest of Sandakan. Among the weeds, there were many tombstones of Nanyang sisters, with their backs to their motherland, Japan.

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