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ISBN10: 023113052X, ISBN13: 9780231130523, [publisher: Columbia Univ. Press (New York)] Hardcover First Edition Hardback. In May 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in 20th 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 6yrs 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 this book, there had been no books written in English that examined 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, the book contains transcripts of the police 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. The author steps beyond the simplistic view of Abe Sada as a sexual deviate or hysterical woman to reveal a survivor of rape, a career as a geisha and a prostitute, and a prison sentence for murder. Sada endured discrimination and hounding by paparazzi until her disappearance in 1970. Her story illustrates a historical collision ...
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