... the anticipation of significant differences among the participants, one of which was the difference in language, and planning for those differences so that they could be an explicit part of the conversation. It also highlights the tensions that arose between U.S. and Japanese women during the workshops, along...

...This chapter provides an overview of Japanese women's unions (JWUs) based on an interview with Midori Ito and Keiko Tani, the founders of Women's Union Tokyo (WUT). Midori and Tani describe in detail the inner workings of their union and offer their views (echoed by other feminist labor activists...

...This chapter focuses on the personal histories of Midori Ito and Keiko Tani as workers and activists, revealing common workplace experiences for women of their generation and offering insights into how and why Japanese women's unions (JWUs) developed the way they did. Tani was born in 1947...

... emphasis on the disadvantages of individual affiliation, and shows that this model of membership hinders the union from retaining members, which in turn exacerbates the workload crisis that the WUT and other Japanese women's unions face. organizing Women’s Union Tokyo WUT collective bargaining...

...In this chapter, the author considers the lasting impacts of the US–Japan Working Women's Networks Project some ten years after its completion, with particular emphasis on how it has transformed the Japanese women's movement as a whole. She shows how the US–Japan Project has enabled Japanese...

... Fukuzawa Yukichi public vs private spheres Great Learning for Women Kaibara Ekiken Neo Confucianism Chinese verse Yanagawa Kōran millenarianism time conception of Nomura Bōtō waka Bakumatsu Tokugawa Japan Japanese women class structure millenarianism Migake kashi kiyoki kokoro...

... Kuniomi kōbu gattai loyalists kinnōka Shimazu Hisamitsu shogunate and domainal governments Teradaya Incident Konoe Tadahiro loyalism Tsuzaki Noriko Nomura Bōtō Hayashi Tadamune Nomura Sadatsura samurai families nunnery Kyoto Japanese women Nomura Bōtō was born in the third year of Bunka...

...This chapter discusses the first concrete fruits of the US–Japan Working Women's Networks Project as the Japanese participants pilot their own newly created educational programs. On December 24, 2005, the Japanese women held a national meeting in Osaka in preparation for Workshop III. Each...

...This book examines a puzzle in Japanese politics: Why do Japanese women turn out to vote at rates higher than men? On the basis of in-depth fieldwork in various parts of the country, the book argues that the exclusion of women from a full range of opportunities in public life provokes many of them...

... contends that an improvement in gender equality in the corporate system will require that Japan fundamentally depart from its postwar methods of business management. Only when the static labor market is revitalized through adoption of new systems of cost savings, employee hiring, and rewards will Japanese...