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  • Why I am here, why she is there — Journeys around Karayuki-san
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Lecture performance by Kaori Nishio

Why I am here, why she is there — Journeys around Karayuki-san

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In 2018, Nishio, who lived in Kuala Lumpur for five and a half years from the age of 5, experienced a turn of fate and began researching a cemetery for Japanese people in Penang, Malaysia. 80% of the people buried there were Japanese women known as Karayuki. Nishio will talk about the journeys of these women who came mainly from Shimabara and Amakusa, and their involvement in sex work across Southeast Asia.

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Kaori Nishio

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Born in Tokyo in 1985. Playwright, director, artistic director of theatre company Bird Park. After a childhood in Malaysia she researched Shuji Terayama at University of Tokyo (B.A.), and Shogo Ota at ...

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Saturday, December 15, 2018 — Sunday, March 3, 2019

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Saturday, December 22, 2018

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Lecture performance by Kaori Nishio

Why I am here, why she is there — Journeys around Karayuki-san

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