Intimate Encounters

Explores the changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a nonJapanesepopulation Filipina brides. This book investigates how Filipina women whoemigrated to ... » 

Explores the changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a nonJapanesepopulation Filipina brides. This book investigates how Filipina women whoemigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars where initially they weredisparaged as prostitutes and foreigners came to be identified by the localresidents as traditional Japanese brides. «