Author: Edward R. Beauchamp
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815327318
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Published for the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, this work highlights the multiplicity of perspectives and approaches to dealing with political, economic, military, cultural and sexual discrimination of women in Japan. Twelve interviews with Japanese feminists are included.

Author: Yoshie Kobayashi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113593634X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, this volume focuses on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to examine state-society relationships in terms of feminist policymaking, it tends to neglect a state's activity in improving women's status and rights in non-western nations where the feminist movements are apathetic or antagonistic to the state and where the state also creates a vertical relationship with feminist groups.

Author: Brenda L. Moore
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813532783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Annotation Documents the life histories of Japanese American women who served in WWII.

Author: Kaye Broadbent
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136133461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are women, are concentrated in low paid, low skilled, poorly unionised service sector jobs. Part-time workers in Japan work hours equivalent to, or greater than, full-time workers, but receive lower financial and welfare benefits than their full-time colleagues. Overall, the book demonstrates that the way part-time work is constructed in Japan reinforces and institutionalises the sexual division of labour.

Author: Vera Mackie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521527194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Chizuko Ueno
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
ISBN:
Category : Comfort women
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Ueno (humanities and sociology, U. of Tokyo, Japan) explores interrelated issues of gender, war, history, and public memory. She first looks at Japanese women's support for aggressive war and their acceptance of the gender strategy for nationalizing women through mobilization. She next turns to the discursive battle over the Japanese treatment of

Author: C. Sarah Soh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022676804X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.

Author: Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804750226
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This book examines the impact of global human rights norms on the development of women's, children's, and minority rights in Japan since the early 1990s.

Author: Peipei Qiu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199373914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local women and the spread of venereal disease among soldiers. In reality, these women were kidnapped and coerced into sexual slavery. Comfort stations institutionalized rape, and these "comfort women" were subjected to atrocities that have only recently become the subject of international debate. Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves features the personal narratives of twelve women forced into sexual slavery when the Japanese military occupied their hometowns. Beginning with their prewar lives and continuing through their enslavement to their postwar struggles for justice, these interviews reveal that the prolonged suffering of the comfort station survivors was not contained to wartime atrocities but was rather a lifelong condition resulting from various social, political, and cultural factors. In addition, their stories bring to light several previously hidden aspects of the comfort women system: the ransoms the occupation army forced the victims' families to pay, the various types of improvised comfort stations set up by small military units throughout the battle zones and occupied regions, and the sheer scope of the military sexual slavery-much larger than previously assumed. The personal narratives of these survivors combined with the testimonies of witnesses, investigative reports, and local histories also reveal a correlation between the proliferation of the comfort stations and the progression of Japan's military offensive. The first English-language account of its kind, Chinese Comfort Women exposes the full extent of the injustices suffered by these women and the conditions that caused them.