Panpan : Streetwalking in Occupied Japan Author(s): Holly Sanders Source: Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 81, No. 3 (August 2012), pp. 404-431 Published by: University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/phr.2012.81.3.404 . Accessed: 12/05/2014 04:31 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. University of California Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Pacific Historical Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 133.99.150.169 on Mon, 12 May 2014 04:31:52 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Panpan: Streetwalking in Occupied Japan HOLLY SANDERS The author is a member of the history department at Villanova University. This article explores sex markets in Occupied Japan. These operated under a legal regime distinct from traditional pleasure quarters and provided wage labor. There, streetwalkers, or panpan, had unprecedented control over their work. Many came from the middle class and formed women-led gangs that resembled criminal syndi- cates. The former especially concerned social scientists and mothers in postwar Japan. Calls to sanitize public space to protect Japanese children increasingly dominated public discourse about the U.S.