Review: Japanese prostitutes in the North American West, 1887–1920 by Kazuhiro Oharazeki

Yukari Takai is a professor at the Department of History at the University of Windsor. She is a historian of North America specialized in issues of migration, women and gender, family, work and borderlands. She holds a research grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project entitled “Many Ties of Intimacy: Gender and Social Relations of Japanese Women and Men in Hawai‘i, 1885–1924.” She is the author of Gendered Passages: French-Canadian Migration to Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900–1920 (New York, 2008).