Yokohama Marie, Japan's No. 1 Dust Girl, has been waiting for 60 years for the person who will not come back
2023-10-19 10:46There is such an eccentric old woman on the streets of Yokohama, Japan. All the year round, she smears a thick white foundation on her face, paints dark eye shadow, and paints red lips. The whole person looks like wearing a mask.
Her name is Nishioka Yukiko, and others also call her Yokohama Mary, Her Majesty the Queen. She is a street girl and is quite famous on the streets of Yokohama. Unlike other people, she dresses up well every day.
Wearing glasses, high heels and a white gauze skirt, with long white gloves and a white parasol with a long handle as a young man. Later, as Yukiko got older, her back was hunched, but she always straightened her chest.
"If I'm a prostitute, I'll always be a prostitute. As a prostitute, I'll keep doing it."
Xuezi's life was full of ups and downs. She was born in a wealthy family and had a younger brother. When she was a child, the younger siblings seemed to live in a honey pot.
The good times did not last long. Japan was defeated in 1945. Under the raging war, Yukiko's father also died unfortunately. In order to monopolize the family property, the younger brother expelled Yukiko from the house.
Xuezi was alone on the street, when she found a job advertisement, recruiting female office workers, including room and board, high income, limited to women between 18 and 25 years old.
Yukiko stood out in the fierce competition because she could speak English. She didn't know until she arrived at the workplace that this place called RAA was a special comfort station.
The recruiting statement read , "As one of the facilities for dealing with emergencies after the war, we seek the first cooperation of new Japanese women to participate in the great cause of condolences to the garrison. "
Here, Yukiko was forced to change into gorgeous clothes, put on heavy makeup, and endure inhuman torture and ravages day and night. The days seem to have no hope.
Due to the lack of safety measures, the number of people infected with syphilis is increasing, and this has also been complained by many people. For safety reasons, the RAA, the sex-buying agency, was finally abolished.
At this moment, Xuezi also met the only beam of light in his life, a young American officer, in his eyes there is no discrimination against Xuezi, some only have fiery love, the two can talk and spend time together. good time,
But not long after, the officer was called back to China, and the two had to be separated. The officer promised to return to Japan again, marry her, and give Yukiko a ring as a token of love. In Xuezi's reluctance, the officer embarked on a journey back home.
Xuezi firmly believed that he would come back to pick her up, so she had been wandering the streets where she first met, from youth to gray hair, sixty years later, Xuezi is still waiting.
Xuezi insisted on painting her snow-white face and maintaining a weird dress. She also hoped that when the officer came back, he could recognize and see himself in the crowd at a glance.
During Xuezi's working hours, it was common for her to be expelled and chased, and she was often treated differently by others, but Xuezi also received kindness from many well-meaning people.
When drinking tea in a teahouse, many people disliked using the same quilt as the woman standing on the street, and boycotted Xuezi one after another, and the boss prepared a cup for Xuezi alone.
In order to express his gratitude, Yukiko also sends gifts to the boss every year, although it is only a towel. But that was something that Yukiko, who had meager savings, could only buy.
In her life, Xuezi has experienced being oppressed, discriminated against, and also experienced the sweetness of love, the sadness of waiting, and the warm kindness, and at the same time, she has also left a deep mark on the world.
Her miserable life was caused by being abandoned by the state, from being tempted to become a comfort woman, to being discriminated against by society, she had no way to change her destiny, but she could only follow the trend, she could only pin her hopes on her lover, and hope that her lover would one day able to come back.
Yokohama Mary is not only a personal tragedy, but also a tragedy caused by the background of the times !
