[圖]越南殖民地的日本妓女
- 細節
- 發表於 2015 年 7 月 15 日 星期三 11:50
- 西貢人寫的。
在她的 西貢 - Cho Lon 部落格中，陳碧春 (Chen Bichun) 最近探索了許多很少被討論的歷史層面之一——19 世紀末和 20 世紀初，亞洲各地被迫賣淫的數千名日本婦女。
雖然它指的是九州西部和北部的方言，但“Karyuki-San”字面意思是“去中國的人”，最終成為海外日本妓女的代名詞，因為他們中的許多人都來自這裡。
這些婦女通常是貧困漁民的女兒，調解員會拜訪她們，向她們的家人提供補償，並承諾她們的女兒將前往海外執行公務。
然後，她們被賣給海外妓院的老闆，並被送往繁華的殖民港口城市，包括新加坡、檳城、馬六甲、瑞天鹹港、山打根、古晉、雅加達、泗水、曼谷、西貢、海防和河內。
在越南，Karyuki-San於1884年至1885年首次大規模出現，以滿足中法戰爭期間駐紮在北方的法國軍隊數量不斷增加的需求。
根據官方記錄，到1908年，生活在印度支那的日本人絕大多數都是妓女。
諷刺的是，Karyuki-San 在越南的存在導致了輔助企業的建立，這些企業最終將取代當地的日本性產業。
1913年，日本帝國海軍中校木村三郎視察法屬印度支那日本人民的處境：
「法屬印度支那的情況和東南亞其他地方一樣，最早的日本定居者都是妓女和皮條客。後來，小店主搬到這裡，向妓女提供商品和需要，例如：和服店、洗衣店、理髮店和攝影師了解了當地的情況後，商人也跟著他們的腳步來到了，然後知識分子和其他想自薦的日本人也搬到了這裡。
這些經濟發展與日本本土社會規範的改變同時發生。 1920年，政府頒布法令結束了賣淫合法化的時代，到1923年，印度支那的所有日本妓院都被關閉。
返回日本後，大多數 Karyuki-San 都被家人瞧不起並拋棄，並因他們大多數人沒有選擇的職業而感到羞恥。
請訪問Bichun 的博客，以了解有關 Karyuki-San 和其他經常被忽視的越南歷史片段的更多詳細資訊。
[Photos] The Japanese Prostitutes Of Colonial Vietnam
- Details
- Published on Wednesday, 15 July 2015 11:50
- Written by Saigoneer.
Over at her Saigon - Cho Lon blog, Chen Bichun recently explored one of the many rarely discussed layers of history – the thousands of Japanese women who were forced into prostitution across Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Though it refers to a dialect spoken in west and north Kyushu, "Karyuki-San," literally “someone who goes to China,” eventually became synonymous with overseas Japanese prostitutes as this is the region from which many of them hailed.
These women where often the daughters of poor fishermen who were visited by mediators that offered compensation to the families, promising that their daughters were going overseas for public duty.
They were then sold off to the owners over overseas brothels and sent to bustling colonial port cities including Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Port Swettenham, Sandakan, Kuching, Jakarta, Surabaya, Bangkok, Saigon, Hai Phong and Hanoi.
In Vietnam, Karyuki-San first appeared in mass in 1884-1885 to meet the demand of the growing number of French troops stationed in the North during the Sino-French War.
According to official records, by 1908, the vast majority of Japanese living in Indochina were prostitutes.
Ironically, the presence of Karyuki-San in Vietnam resulted in the establishment of ancillary businesses that would eventually replace the local Japanese sex industry.
In 1913, Kimura Saburo, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Imperial Japanese Navy inspected the situation of Japanese people in French Indochina:
"The situation in French Indochina was same as the other place in Southeast Asia. The first Japanese settlers were prostitutes and pimps. Later, the small shopkeeper moved to here to offer the commodity and needs to prostitutes, ex: Kimono shop, laundry shop, hairdressing shop, and photographer. After they understand the local situation, merchants follow their step arrived, then intellectuals and other Japanese individual who would like to refer to himself to move to here.”
These economic developments coincided with changing social norms on the Japanese mainland. In 1920, the government issued a decree ending the age of legalized prostitution and, by 1923, all Japanese brothels in Indochina had been closed.
Upon their return to Japan, most Karyuki-San were looked down upon and abandoned by their families, shamed by a profession most of them didn't chose.
Head over to Bichun’s blog for more details about Karyuki-San and other often overlooked pieces of Vietnamese history.
