karayuki-san

thumb|right|Karayuki-san in Saigon, [[French Indochina]] Karayuki-san () was the name given to Japanese girls and women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were trafficked from poverty-stricken agricultural prefectures in Japan to destinations in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Siberia (Russian Far East), Manchuria, British India, and Australia, to serve as prostitutes.

==History== , signified such women who went abroad to work, usually as prostitutes, courtesans, and geisha, in Asia-Pacific region. They were bound often to European-controlled areas in Southeast Asia or the Pacific, from the late Edo Period into Meiji era (latter half of 19th century into early 20th century) and some years thereafter. During this period, there was a network of Japanese prostitutes being trafficked across Asia, in what was then known as the ’Yellow Slave Traffic.