Japan und die globale Sexindustrie

Abstract

The paper analyzes the historical process, which led to the globalization of sex-trade in Japan. It is shown that there is a line from the traditional state regulated brothel system to the military system of sexual slavery in occupied countries (the so-called »comfort women«) in the thirties and forties and to the commercial sex-industry and trafficking in the eighties and nineties. With the changing economic and political role of Japan in this century the sex-trade of Japan also took new forms.