Since ancient times, women who work in the place of wind and moon will be spurned by the world, and the ancients often said that such women are the most ruthless, so this profession has always been looked down upon. But in fact, there are exceptions, today I want to talk about a Japanese woman, she used to be a geisha, she has been doing this business all her life, and she still hasn't stopped working at the age of 74, but her story has touched many people.
The Japanese geisha's name is Mary, a girl living in Yokohama. In 1945, Japan was defeated, the US army entered Japan, Japan at that time because of the defeat caused huge economic losses, countless Japanese people lost their jobs, unable to support their families, Mary was 24 years old, born beautiful and versatile, but the war made Mary orphaned and homeless. Helpless, she looked for work everywhere, but she could not find the right one. While living on the streets of Yokohama, Mary found a job advertisement for young girls, and the salary was also extremely high.
Mary was very happy when she saw it, and she went to the selection without figuring out what she was doing, and she was successfully selected. Mary thought she would finally be able to live a stable life, but what she didn't expect was that this was the beginning of the nightmare. Because this job was a comfort women team specially opened by Japan to meet the needs of the US military, all the women who came to apply for the job eventually became victims of defeat and lived without dignity.
The young women were kept in dark small rooms every day, receiving more than a dozen different American soldiers. Later, the incident was protested by the families of the US military, and the plan could only be terminated. Mary was thrown out with the other women and lived a wandering life again, but by this time they had long been desperate for life, and in order to survive, they could only continue to work in the industry.
Mary is the same, shuttling through various streets every day, but because Mary is beautiful and versatile, she still maintains a pride, and unlike others, she chooses her own guests. One night, Mary meets the love of her life, an American officer, and the two quickly fall in love. However, soon the American officer said that he wanted to return home, and when he saw him off, he told Mary that he would return to marry her. Just because of this promise, Mary rekindled hope that the other party would come back to her, and began a 60-year wait.
In Yokohama, you can see Mary standing on the street every day, wearing delicate heavy makeup and a gorgeous lace dress, and her movements are very elegant. Mary, who was homeless at night, could only sleep on a bench on the side of the road or in the park, day after day, year after year. Many people think that she has mental problems and do not know what she is doing every day.
And Mary in order to survive and continue to solicit customers, insisting on wearing the most beautiful makeup every day waiting for the person she loves the most, Mary still has many guests in her 30s, and she is more popular in her 40s, but 50-year-old Mary can occasionally receive guests, and 60-year-old Mary is no longer cared for. No matter what, she never gave up waiting for someone she loved until Mary was 74 years old.
When Mary died in her hometown in 2005, she spent half her life waiting for an impossible outcome, betting her whole life on being an impossible person, but she ended up with nothing, in fact, if Mary had let go earlier, she might have lived well. In 2006, a documentary about Mary was released, and everyone understood what Mary was doing. She has been waiting for someone all her life, unlike other geisha, Mary is more affectionate, perhaps many people think she is absurd, even children are afraid when they see her, but no one understands her affection for decades.