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Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess
Bar Flower My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess
Author: Lea Jacobson
Having originally landed in Japan in 2003 after college at McGill to work as a kindergarten teacher, Jacobson was fired from her job at the Happy Learning English School in Yokosuka city because the psychiatrist she saw for anxiety revealed her condition in a letter to her employer. Outspoken about discrimination against women in Japanese societ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312368975
ISBN-10: 0312368976
Publication Date: 4/15/2008
Pages: 352
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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Very interesting look at the Japanese nightclub hostess scene, certainly a topic that I had no knowledge of prior to reading this. These women are basically modernized--though no less ritualized--geishas.


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