This is an important and controversial book, hitherto available only in Korean, Japanese and Chinese. The author reconsiders the issue of the "comfort women", that is the Korean women who were compelled to provide sexual comfort to Japanese troops during the Asia-Pacific War.
Clements, Barbara Evans. ‘The Birth of the New Soviet Woman’.Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. In Abbott Gleason, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites, (eds.)Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985...
Japanese Political Science Review 2: 19–37. Article Google Scholar Ogawa, A. 2013. Young Precariat at the Forefront: Anti-Nuclear Rallies in Post-Fukushima Japan. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 14: 317–326. Article Google Scholar Olson, M. 2012. Atomic Radiation Is More Harmful to Women. ...
The east-west juxtaposition captures the symbolic politics of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the first Games held in Asia (Kida 2013; Tagsold 2002, 2011). However, here our attention shall briefly alight on the second foregrounded dichotomy in the Olympic stadium mural, that of gender. We ...
In Japanese literature: Kamakura period (1192–1333) The lowered position of women under this feudalistic government perhaps explains the noticeable diminution in the importance of writings by court ladies; indeed, there was hardly a woman writer of distinction between the 13th and 19th centuries. ...
This article analyses the history of violence and ‘comfort women’ or women survivors in the Japanese empire through the lens of emotions: a neglected aspect in the study of military sexual violence...
However, Southeast Asian women were granted with more rights than other parts of Asia. Japanese women experienced both submission and respect during different time periods. Indian women were often suppressed by the caste system, purdah, and other practices found in the Harem. While suppression seems...
imperialism in Asia and the Pacific, and Inouye ensures America's global powerdoi:10.17953/amer.26.2.e8h32053k6898v55Ida YoshinagaEiko KosasaAmerasia JournalIda Yoshinaga and Eiko Kosasa, "Local Japanese Women for Justice (LJWJ) Speak Out against Daniel Inouye and the JACL" in Asian Settler ...
After the fall of fascism – Rome, considered the heart of fascism under Mussolini was liberated in June 1944 and many felt the country had lost its basic values after 20 years of fascist government –Alba de Céspedesfounded a literary journalMercuriopublishing many great names of Italian litera...
In honor of Women’s History Month, GRAMMY.com highlights some of the foundational women who have shaped the sounds of reggae and dancehall as well as spotlights one artist who is taking one of the genres into the future. Sonia Pottinger: The First Woman Jamaican Record ProducerSonia...