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The Sexual Life of Japan: Being an Exhaustive Study of the Nightless City

Product Description: An excerpt from the Author's PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION: SUBSEQUENT to the anonymous publication of the first edition of "The Nightless City" in 1899, the author was severely remonstrated with by certain unctuous persons for writing a work which lays bare a phase of Japanese social phenomena before which all writers (with the notable exception of Mr...read more

By J. E. De Becker

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9781494946258 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 8, 2014, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: An excerpt from the Author's PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION: SUBSEQUENT to the anonymous publication of the first edition of "The Nightless City" in 1899, the author was severely remonstrated with by certain unctuous persons for writing a work which lays bare a phase of Japanese social phenomena before which all writers (with the notable exception of Mr.

9781481970488 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 12, 2013, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Published in 1934, this is the history of prostitution in Japan.

The Nightless City: Geisha and Courtesan Life in Old Tokyo

By J. E. De Becker

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9780486455631 | Dover Pubns, September 19, 2007, cover price $16.95

The Nightless City: Or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku

By J. E. De Becker and Donald Richie (introduced by)

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9781933330389, titled "Nightless City: Or, the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku" | Stone Bridge Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $14.95

9784925080316 | Icg Muse Inc, February 1, 2003, cover price $12.95

The Nightless City

By J. E. De Becker

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9781596544161 | Olympiapress.Com, February 28, 2007, cover price $13.95

The Sexual Life of Japan: An Exhaustive Study of the Nightless City

Product Description: James A. Michener (in The Floating World) has called De Becker's notorious study and history of Tokyo's brothel quarter an "unorganized collection of astonishing facts." De Becker, a lawyer, was one of very few naturalized Westerners living in Yokohama; he wrote numerous works on Japanese law, economics and language during the period 1897-1928...read more

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9781410109026 | Fredonia Books, March 30, 2006, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: James A.

The Nightless City of the Geisha: The History of the Yoshiwara

Product Description: The Japanese geisha is the ultimate erotic icon -- the courtesan par excellence -- and this is her definitive book. The life of the geisha is the most secret and traditional in Japan and today remains largely unchanged and unknown behind the teahouse doors...read more

By J. E. De Becker

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9780710307170 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: The Japanese geisha is the ultimate erotic icon -- the courtesan par excellence -- and this is her definitive book.

Elements of Japanese Law: Studies in Japanese Law and Government