Women And Politics In Contemporary Japan

Author : Emma Dalton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317554196

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This book looks at the gendering of the political system in Japan and the effects of that system on gender equality in national-level politics specifically and wider society more generally. It examines the approach taken by the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to issues of gender equality in Japan, and the repercussions of that approach on women’s political experiences and representation. This book covers a range of themes including the role of the LDP and other major political parties in constructing the modern Japanese political system, the under-representation of women in Japanese politics, women’s experiences in party politics and the gendering of government policies. Using in-depth interviews with women members of the national Diet, the book sheds light on how political women negotiate the male-dominated world of Japanese politics.

Author : Mikiko Eto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000283129

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Women and Political Inequality in Japan by Mikiko Eto Pdf

Why are there so few Japanese women involved in the political system? In 2019, Japanese women made up 10% of the national Lower House, 21% of the Upper House, and 14% of local assemblies. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, this places Japan 164th out of 193 countries when it comes to women’s representation in the legislature. The percentage of women in the Lower House has only increased by fewer than two percentage points since women gained full suffrage and the right to stand for election in Japan in 1946. Eto analyses the various factors that have led to women’s low presence in the Japanese legislature. She evaluates ways in which it might be possible for Japan to catch up and, in doing so, examines how Japanese society continues to perpetuate gender-rigid expectations of people. This text is a valuable study for scholars of Japanese politics and society, and for readers with an interest in the broader issue of the representation of women in politics.

Author : Laura Dales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134046379

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Feminist Movements in Contemporary Japan by Laura Dales Pdf

In contemporary Japan there is much ambivalence about women’s roles, and the term "feminism" is not widely recognised or considered relevant. Nonetheless, as this book shows, there is a flourishing feminist movement in contemporary Japan. The book investigates the features and effects of feminism in contemporary Japan, in non-government (NGO) women’s groups, government-run women’s centres and the individual activities of feminists Haruka Yoko and Kitahara Minori. Based on two years of fieldwork conducted in Japan and drawing on extensive interviews and ethnographic data, it argues that the work of individual activists and women’s organisations in Japan promotes real and potential change to gender roles and expectations among Japanese women. It explores the ways that feminism is created, promoted and limited among Japanese women, and advocates a broader construction of what the feminist movement is understood to be and a rethinking of the boundaries of feminist identification. It also addresses the impact of legislation, government bureaucracy, literature and the internet as avenues of feminist development, and details the ways which these promote agency – the ability to act – among Japanese women.

Author : Gill Steel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137591937

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Power in Contemporary Japan by Gill Steel Pdf

This book discusses Japanese conceptions of power and presents a complex, nuanced look at how power operates in society and in politics. It rejects stereotypes that describe Japanese citizens as passive and apolitical, cemented into a vertically structured, group-oriented society and shows how citizens learn about power in the contexts of the family, the workplace, and politics. As Japan grapples with the consequences of having one of the oldest and most rapidly ageing populations in the world, it is important for social scientists and policy makers worldwide to understand the choices it makes. Particularly as policy-makers have once again turned their attention to workers, the roles of women, families, and to immigrants as potential ‘solutions’ to the perceived problem of maintaining or increasing the working population. These studies show the ebb and flow of power over time and also note that power is context-dependent — actors can have power in one context, but not another.

Author : Duncan McCargo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137284914

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Contemporary Japan by Duncan McCargo Pdf

Japan is one of the world's most important societies, yet remains one of the least understood. This book is designed to fill the gap for a concise but thought-provoking introduction to all aspects of the country's political, economic and social life set in a clear historical context. The author's starting-point is that the study of Japan is 'contested territory' where even such apparently simple questions such as 'Who is in charge?' spark considerable disagreement and controversy among experts. To understand contemporary Japan, Duncan McCargo argues, it is necessary to get to grips with a range of different perspectives on Japanese political and social structures. Integrating contrasting perspectives throughout, the core chapters of the book focus on the changing economy, government and politics, society and culture, and Japan's place in the wider world. The new third edition of this popular text has been fully revised and updated throughout to cover key developments such as the historic end of LDP rule in 2009. This accessible and lively book will be essential reading both for students and general readers who want to know more about this important country.

Author : Anne Stefanie Aronsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317686989

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Career Women in Contemporary Japan by Anne Stefanie Aronsson Pdf

Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the "glass ceiling", as digital technologies blur and redefine work in spatial, gendered, and ideological terms. This book examines what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in the contemporary neoliberal economy, and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. It analyses how professional women contest conventional notions of femininity in contemporary Japan and in turn, negotiate new gender roles and cultural assumptions about women, whilst reorganizing the Japanese workplace and wider socio-economic relationships. Further, the book explores how professional women create new social identities through the mutual conditioning of structure and self, and asks how women come to understand their experiences; how their actions change the gendering of the workforce; and how their lives shape the economic, political, social, and cultural landscapes of this post-industrial nation. Based on extensive fieldwork, Career Women in Contemporary Japan will have broad appeal across a range of disciplines including Japanese culture and society, gender and family studies, women’s studies, anthropology, ethnology and sociology.

Author : Masae Kato
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789053567937

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Women's Rights? by Masae Kato Pdf

This book analyses the debates between handicapped people's movement and women's movement in Japan about the issue of selective abortion focusing on the concept of 'right'.

Author : Kazuyoshi Kawasaka, Stefan Würrer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783110768039

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Beyond Diversity by Kazuyoshi Kawasaka, Stefan Würrer Pdf

Author : Jan Bardsley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472533814

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Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by Jan Bardsley Pdf

Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan offers a fresh perspective on gender politics by focusing on the Japanese housewife of the 1950s as a controversial representation of democracy, leisure, and domesticity. Examining the shifting personae of the housewife, especially in the appealing texts of women's magazines, reveals the diverse possibilities of postwar democracy as they were embedded in media directed toward Japanese women. Each chapter explores the contours of a single controversy, including debate over the royal wedding in 1959, the victory of Japan's first Miss Universe, and the unruly desires of postwar women. Jan Bardsley also takes a comparative look at the ways in which the Japanese housewife is measured against equally stereotyped notions of the modern housewife in the United States, asking how both function as narratives of Japan-U.S. relations and gender/class containment during the early Cold War.

Author : Akio Igarashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351227889

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Japanese Contemporary Politics by Akio Igarashi Pdf

In the postwar period, Japanese politics has evolved considerably, with issues of gender, representation, and household economics becoming increasingly salient. Meanwhile, since the end of the Cold War, Japan has joined other developed states in the process of decentralization and deindustrialization. Yet, its restructuring has come at a slower pace, as the Japanese bureaucracy attempts to retain a more traditional approach. This book, a translated and updated version of the author's 2010 monograph Nihon seijiron, traces these developments in Japanese politics from the end of the Asia Pacific wars to the present day. Examining each of the key stages of transition, it looks at four aspects of Japanese politics: high politics, interest-centered politics, life-centered politics, and globalization. It also provides up-to-date analysis of contemporary themes, including the Abe administration’s challenge to international politics and coverage of nuclear issues. Written by an experienced Japanese scholar, this book ultimately demonstrates how globalization has transformed the nature of local politics, as well as national security. However, as seen in the recent triple disaster of 2011 (a chapter on which has been added), Japanese politics retains traditional practices that have led to corruption, scandal, and political mistrust among the electorate. Offering a comprehensive introduction to Japanese politics, this book will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of Japanese politics and comparative and Asia politics in general.

Author : Mariko Asano Tamanoi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824820045

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Under the Shadow of Nationalism by Mariko Asano Tamanoi Pdf

The contribution of rural women to the creation and expansion of the Japanese nation-state is undeniable. As early as the nineteenth century, the women of central Japan's Nagano prefecture in particular provided abundant and cheap labor for a number of industries, most notably the silk spinning industry. Rural women from Nagano could also be found working, from a very young age, as nursemaids, domestic servants, and farm laborers. In whatever capacity they worked, these women became the objects of scrutiny and reform in a variety of nationalist discourses--not only because of the importance of their labor to the nation, but also because of their gender and domicile (the countryside was the centerpiece of state ideology and practice before and during the war, during the Occupation, and beyond). Under the Shadow of Nationalism explores the interconnectedness of nationalism and gender in the context of modern Japan. It combines the author's long-term field research with a painstaking examination of the documents behind these discourses produced at various levels of society, from the national (government records, social reformers' reports, ethnographic data) to the local (teachers' manuals, labor activists' accounts, village newspapers). It provides a wide-ranging yet in-depth look at a key group of Japanese women as national subjects through the critical chapters of Japanese modernity and postmodernity.

Author : Vera Mackie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521527198

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Feminism in Modern Japan by Vera Mackie Pdf

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Author : Jennifer Chan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X004806650

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Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan by Jennifer Chan Pdf

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 : Marnie S. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015062461879

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A Woman's Place by Marnie S. Anderson Pdf

Author : Andrea Germer,Vera Mackie,Ulrike Wöhr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317667148

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Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan by Andrea Germer,Vera Mackie,Ulrike Wöhr Pdf

Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation–states in its focus on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the present. References to gender relations are deeply embedded in the historical concepts of nation and nationalism, and in the related symbols, metaphors and arguments. Moreover, the development of the binary opposition between masculinity and femininity and the development of the modern nation-state are processes which occurred simultaneously. They were the product of a shift from a stratified, hereditary class society to a functionally-differentiated social body. This volume includes the work of an international group of scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia and Germany, which in many cases appears in English for the first time. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the formation of the modern Japanese nation–state, including comparative perspectives from research on the formation of the modern nation–state in Europe, thus bringing research on Japan into a transnational dialogue. This volume will be of interest in the fields of modern Japanese history, gender studies, political science and comparative studies of nationalism.