The Great Impresario Oguri: a Story of Colonial Singapore

by Wena Poon

At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of poor Japanese girls were tricked or kidnapped by zegen - Japanese "impresarios". The girls were smuggled onto steamships and sent to Singapore, where they were sold for sex to a largely male population while the British authorities struggled to contain prostitution and disease. In 1906, a young magistrate in Nagasaki meets the son of a prostitute, who tells him an incredible story of human trafficking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1976030420
• ISBN13: 9781976030420
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"