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Yamada Waka
was a pioneering Japanese feminist and social reformer, active in the late Meiji period, Taishō and Showa periods of Japan. ==Early life== Born Asaba Waka in Kurihama Village, Miura County (present day Yokosuka), in Kanagawa Prefecture to a poor peasant family, at age 18, in 1897, she went to nearby Yokohama to look for a job. However, she was kidnapped and ended up being trafficked to Seattle to be a prostitute, becoming known there as "Arabian Oyae". She was held as a sex slave there until 1900, when she met a Japanese journalist, Shinzaburo Ritsui (立井信三郎), who became interested in her plight and helped her to escape to San Francisco. Her erstwhile savior then pimped her out himself, until she fled him and found Cameron House, a Presbyterian mission set up to help prostitutes escape their plight. She converted to Christianity and worked there while taking English lessons. In 1903, she met Kakichi Yamada (山田嘉吉), a sociologist who ran an English school. They fell in love and married the following year, and in 1906 moved back to Japan.
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