ABSTRACT

A number of citizens are deprived of their natural rights in order that other citizens may profit by their loss; and the State, the incarnation of justice, the protector of the rights of all, dares thus to sacrifice the rights of some of its members to the pleasures of others. Japanese men failed as military warriors but prevailed as economic ones. They took their bombed-out, broken-down, and militarily besieged country from economic devastation in 1945 to prosperity in 1968 when their gross economic outputs tallied up second highest among the nations of men. White collar Japanese working men are internationally renowned for their corporate sex tourism and after-hours client-entertaining in sex industry venues. It was during the high-speed economic growth years that these corporate prostitution practices institutionally solidified. Japanese society has changed enormously since the high growth era, but perhaps least changed are its sexist practices and attitudes, including those exercised by men in white collar work.