@article{449301,
      recid = {449301},
      author = {Kovner, Sarah},
      title = {Occupying power sex workers and servicemen in postwar  Japan / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Stanford University Press,},
      address = {Stanford, Calif. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 226 p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops  struck Japan like an earthquake, altering both the built  environment and the country's psychological landscape. Made  especially visible at the time were  panpan--streetwalkers--desired by foreign servicemen.  Though sex workers became symbols of Japan's diminished  status, by earning scarce dollars they helped jumpstart  economic recovery. But sex workers who catered to  servicemen were a frequent target. They were blamed for  increases in venereal disease and for diluting the Japanese  race by producing mixed-race offspring.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/449301},
}