Mao Ishikawa's seminal early work — photographs made between 1975 and 1977 in Koza and Kin, Okinawa, where she worked and lived among the women of bars frequented by Black American soldiers from the local US military bases. Across five chapters the book follows the women's courageous, honest lives — gossip, work, boyfriends, the beach, their children — a raw, "post-Provoke" personal documentary born of the photographer's own immersion. Reissued for the fiftieth anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to Japan.