近代 일본 식민도시의 遊廓 형성과 娼妓業

Abstract

The Meiji regime has restructured the public prostitution system modernly, modeling their prostitution control policies while inspecting European countries. As the Japanese imperialism go abroad in earnest, japanese colony was built in several Asian countries and the Japanese settled in the colonial cities. The Japanese wanted to live as much as possible in the colonies as in the mainland of Japan, so they introduced the mainland system and culture to their settlement. Thus, the Japanese settlements of the Japanese colonial cities were essentially equipped with military, shrines, and fortresses, and the Japanese settlements built in Korea and China were also built. For the purpose of construction, the red-light district started to operate for Japanese men at first, but as the establishment of the red-light district became more successful, it was deeply infiltrated into the colonial city society in the 1920s and 30s, and the red-light district of colonial cities developed into one of the representative entertainment cultures of the city. In modern Korean and Chinese colonial cities, Japanese-style red-light district culture was formed without exception, and the implementation of the legal prostitution system was aimed at providing safe sex to Japanese troops stationed abroad in addition to reducing complaints from Japanese overseas or generating local interests. Thus, this legal prostitution system was useful not only to facilitate Japanese colonial rule and to enforce proper control over the colonies, but also to Japan's interest in expanding imperialist aggression by boosting the morale of its troops.