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荒木経惟. Tokyo Lucky Hole. Köln;New York:Taschen, 1997. ISBN 3-8228-8189-9. 768 pages. Black and white photographs of Shinjuku sex workers, clients, and businesses taken 1983–5.
Associated Press. "Women turn to selling sexual favors in Japan"[リンク切れ]. Taipei Times, December 9, 2002, p. 11. Accessed 11 October 2006.
Bornoff, Nicholas. Pink Samurai:Love, Marriage and Sex in Contemporary Japan. New York:Pocket Books, 1991. ISBN 0-671-74265-5.
Clements, Steven Langhorne. Tokyo Pink Guide. Tokyo:Yenbooks, 1993. ISBN 0-8048-1915-7.
Constantine, Peter. Japan's Sex Trade:A Journey Through Japan's Erotic Subcultures. Tokyo:Yenbooks, 1993. ISBN 4-900737-00-3.
"The Day the Red Lights Went Out in Japan". MSN-Mainichi Daily News. April 1, 2008. Accessed April 2, 2008.
De Becker, J. E. The Nightless City ... or, The "History of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku"., 4th ed. rev. Yokohama [etc.] M. Nössler & Co.;London, Probsthain & Co., 1905. ISBN 1-933330-38-4.
De Becker, J. E. The Nightless City:Geisha and Courtesan Life in Old Tokyo (reprint). Mineola, N.Y.:Dover Publications, 2007. ISBN 0-486-45563-7.
De Mente, Boye Lafayette. Mizu Shobai:The Pleasure Girls and Flesh Pots of Japan. London:Ortolan Press, 1966.
De Mente, Boye Lafayette. Sex and the Japanese:The Sensual Side of Japan. Rutland, Vermont:Tuttle Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0-8048-3826-7.
De Mente, Boye Lafayette. Tadahito Nadamoto (illus.). Some Prefer Geisha:The Lively Art of Mistress Keeping in Japan. Rutland, Vermont:Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1966.
Fitzpatrick, William. Tokyo After Dark. New York:McFadden Books, 1965.
French, Howard W. "Japan's Red Light 'Scouts' and Their Gullible Discoveries". The New York Times. November 15, 2001. Accessed 11 October 2006.
Goodwin, Janet R. Selling Songs and Smiles:The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan. Honolulu:University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8248-3068-7, ISBN 0-8248-3097-0.
Japan The Trafficking of Women.
Kamiyama, Masuo. "The day Japan's red lights flickered out". MSN-Mainichi Daily News. February 25, 2006. Accessed 11 October 2006.
Kattoulas, Velisarios. "Human Trafficking:Bright Lights, Brutal Life"[リンク切れ]. Far East Economic Review. August 3, 2000. Accessed 11 October 2006.
Kuly, Lisa (2003). “Locating Transcendence in Japanese Minzoku Geinô: Yamabushi and Miko Kagura”. Ethnologies 25 (1):  191–208. doi:10.7202/007130ar. ISSN 1481-5974.
Longstreet, Stephen, and Ethel Longstreet. Yoshiwara:City of the Senses. New York:McKay, 1970.
McMurtrie, Douglas C. Ancient Prostitution in Japan. Whitefish, Montana:Kessinger Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1-4253-7206-6. Originally published in Stone, Lee Alexander (ed.). The Story of Phallicism volume 2. Chicago:Pascal Covici, 1927. Reprinted Whitefish, Montana:Kessinger Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-7661-4115-2.
Seigle, Cecilia Segawa. Yoshiwara:The Glittering World of ihe Japanese Courtesan. Honolulu:University of Hawaii Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8248-1488-6.
Sinclair, Joan (2006). Pink Box:Inside Japan's Sex Clubs. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-9259-0
The World's Oldest Debate? Prostitution and the State in Imperial Japan, 1900–1945
Talmadge, Eric. Getting Wet:Adventures in the Japanese Bath. Tokyo;New York:Kodansha International, 2006. ISBN 4-7700-3020-7.
Yokoyama, M. "Analysis of Prostitution in Japan". International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 19, no. 1 (1995):47–60.
Yokoyama, M. "Emergence of Anti-Prostitution Law in Japan—Analysis from Sociology of Criminal Law". International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 17, no. 2 (1993):211–218.
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1846年の吉原の地図
連合国軍占領下の日本における特殊慰安施設協会でのGI。
1956年3月、全国地域婦人団体連絡協議会（現・全国女性団体連絡協議会）など33団体が加盟する「売春禁止法制定促進委員会」は売春婦の更生資金獲得のため、街頭募金活動を行った。同年5月21日、売春防止法が国会で成立した。
吉原のソープランド街（2008年）