Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan

William Johnston

December, 2004
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13052-3
$36.00 / £21.00

Prologue: A Murder Grips the Nation

1. An Unremarkable Family History

2. Early Childhood

3. Maidens or Harlots Only

4. Geisha and Prostitutes

5. Acquaintance Rape

6. Acting Up

7. Becoming Professional

8. Changing Saddles

9. Legal Prostitution and Escape

10. From Prostitute on the Lam to Mistress

11. A Search for Stability

12. Discovering Love

13. Loveís Intoxication

14. Murder

15. No Longer Private

16. Interrogation and Investigation

17. Judgment

18. Imprisonment and Release

19. Celebrity, Hardship, and Escape

Epilogue: A Trail of Re-creations

Notes from the Police Interrogation of Abe Sada

Related Subjects

• Asian History

Series

• Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

About the Author

William Johnston is professor of Japanese history at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan.

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