ABSTRACT
Domestic forces were ultimately most significant in Japan's case, though: in particular, the decision of the country's foreign occupying administration to outlaw trafficking and debt bondage, as will be described. This chapter describes this new operating environment, which, I argue, led to the elite 'geisha' role for prostituted women being translated into the democratised 'hostess'. The description presented in this chapter aims to show Japan's foreign occupying administration as sponsoring not only the dismantling of the country's prior pre-war state-enforced prostitution regime but also, and more importantly, facilitating the subsequent creation of its post-occupation liberal environment of sex industry diversification, beautification and proliferation. By the onset of the Korean War, Japan's commercial environment was developed enough to allow for profiteering by these men who had decades of experience pimping and trafficking women and children in the country and its colonies before and during the war.
