Sex workers were originally confined to three areas, sanctioned in 1618 by the tokugawa shogunate, according to historians Of the soapland districts in the nation today, the most historic and. Despite being illegal, the transactional sex trade in japan is disturbingly mainstream, hidden beneath the thinnest possible veneer. Japan’s licensed prostitution system was abolished in 1946 After that, sex workers continued to operate under the tacit approval of the authorities in areas demarcated with red lines on maps.
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