Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Sachiko Chung gave two lectures for the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. On September 20, she gave a talk on her book chapter "Mizu-shoubai and the Sex Industries in Japan" from the forthcoming edited volume Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society. Chung discussed the legal categories of the sex industries in Japan by focusing on the legal term "fuuzoku" (folkways) and its applications to the industries.
Her second lecture focused on hostess clubs in Japan as a part of mizu-shoubai (water trade) along with her in-depth ethnographic data from her book project. This talk highlighted the blurred boundaries between mizu-shoubai (fuuzoku sangyou) and the sex industries (sei fuuzoku sangyou).
Her second lecture focused on hostess clubs in Japan as a part of mizu-shoubai (water trade) along with her in-depth ethnographic data from her book project. This talk highlighted the blurred boundaries between mizu-shoubai (fuuzoku sangyou) and the sex industries (sei fuuzoku sangyou).
