TY  - GEN
T1  - Geisha, harlot, strangler, star : a woman, sex, and morality in modern Japan
T2  - Asia perspectives.
A1  - Johnston, William, 1955-
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm61160152
AB  - In May 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan -- the murder and emasculation of her lover. What made her do it? And why was she found guilty of murder yet sentenced to only six years in prison? Why have this woman and her crime remained so famous for so long, and what does her fame have to say about attitudes toward sex and sexuality in modern Japan? Despite Abe Sada's notoriety and the depictions of her in film and fiction (notably in the classic In the Realm of the Senses), until now, there have been no books written in English that examine her life and the forces that pushed her to commit the crime. Along with a detailed account of Sada's personal history, the events leading up to the murder, and its aftermath, this books contains transcripts of the policy interrogations after her arrest--one of the few existing first-person records of a woman who worked in the Japanese sex industry during the 1920s and 1930s--as well as a memoir by the judge and police records.
OP  - 245
CN  - HV6535.J33 T63 2005eb
SN  - 0231509154
SN  - 9780231509152
SN  - 023113052X
SN  - 9780231130523
KW  - Abe, Sada, : 1905-
KW  - Murder : Japan : Tokyo : History : Case studies.
KW  - Sex crimes : Japan : Tokyo : History : Case studies.
KW  - Women murderers : Japan : Tokyo : Biography.
KW  - Prostitutes : Japan : Tokyo : Biography.
KW  - Meurtre : Japon : Tōkyō : Histoire : Études de cas.
KW  - Violence sexuelle : Japon : Tōkyō : Histoire : Études de cas.
KW  - Meurtrières : Japon : Tōkyō : Biographies.
KW  - Prostituées : Japon : Tōkyō : Biographies.
KW  - TRUE CRIME : Murder : General.
KW  - HISTORY : Asia : General.
KW  - Murder
KW  - Prostitutes
KW  - Sex crimes
KW  - Women murderers
KW  - Japan : Tokyo
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -