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Filipino Boxers and Hosts in Japan: The Feminization of Male Labor and Transnational Class Subjection1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Nobue Suzuki  and
Sachi Takahata
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With high hopes for better economic mobility and social security, many Filipinos arrive in Japan through the arrangements of promoters and matchmakers. Despite potentially high rewards, some Filipinos nonetheless feel ambivalent about the choices they have made in coming to Japan. Others try to suppress their anxieties about the possibly severe physical, economic, mental, and sexual exploitation and violence from which they may suffer. They are usually aware that their services and performances are the objects of their customers' desires to enjoy exotic and erotic ambience at the clubs where they work. Other Filipino entertainers may conversely swiftly sink their ragged bodies onto the canvas, barely hearing the count going up to ten and the bell signaling the end of their stints.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , April 2007 , e8
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