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He played queens, courtesans, goddesses and brothel madams with a studied grace.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

No-nonsense Maomao, a Tang Dynasty-era girl raised in a brothel who escapes servitude to parlay her apothecary skills in service of the palace, is one of the best female protagonists of all time.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025

There, the hard-working seven-person cast of “Dark Noon,” which opened on Monday, spends much of the production’s 105 minutes assembling the edifices of westward-creeping American civilization, from home to brothel to church to jail.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

He’s penned several children’s books and a novella called “The Legend of Diddley Squatt,” loosely inspired by the life of the late comedian Richard Pryor, who grew up in a brothel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2023

The sept tempted him no more than the brothel; his own gods kept their temples in the wild places, where the weirwoods spread their bone-white branches.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

A South Korean court has ordered Japan to compensate a group of women who were forced to work in military brothels during World War Two.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2023

The Tabor Opera House quickly grabbed the attention of a bustling, rowdy city full of competing theaters, saloons and brothels.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2021

They are likely to discuss issues that have strained relations over generations, including compensation for people forced to work in Japanese firms and military brothels during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule.

From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2021

He rejected accounts of forced labor as "pure fiction," saying the Japanese army "did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels."

From Fox News ● Mar. 8, 2021

There has been no more striking example of the effect of Christian thought upon public sentiment in any country than this crusade against the brothels in Japan.

From Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Bacon, Alice Mabel