Word: yoshiwara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo Brothel-Keepers Association, "moved," they said, "by a spirit of democracy," recently freed their girls from the traditional system of indentured servitude, which had long been the basis of the famed Yoshiwara district. Last week General MacArthur, in the name of "the fundamental human rights," made it an order...
...emancipated girls were in no hurry to leave the Yoshiwara. Said one resident: "With the terrible housing shortage we'd rather stay here." Only nine out of 310 prewar brothels, with their yellow balconies and pink window shades, had survived the B-29s. But shacks were being built with record speed. Business was booming, with about half the customers Americans...