 | Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Social Sciences; Asian Studies; Gender Studies - Soc Sci; History; Japanese Studies; Asian History; Modern History 1750-1945; Imperial & Colonial History; Chinese Studies; Korean Studies; Contributors to this book provide an Asian women's history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propaganda in its colonies and occupied territories and particularly its impact on women. Tackling topics including media, travel, migration, literature, and the perceptions of the empire by the colonised, the authors present an eclectic history, unified by the perspective of gender studies and the spatial and political lens of the Japanese Empire. They look at the lives of women in Manchuria, Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea and Okinawa among others. These women were wives, mothers, writers, migrants, intellectuals and activists, and thus had a very broad range of views and experiences of Imperial Japan. Where women have tended in the past to be studies as objects of the imperial system, the contributors to this book study them as the subject of history, while also providing an outside-in perspective on the Japanese Empire by other Asians. A vital new perspective for scholars of Twentieth century history of East Asian countries and regions such as Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, China. Tatsuya Kageki is research associate in the faculty of economics of Keio University. He completed a master's course and finished doctoral program without a PhD in 2020. His research focused on developing the history of social thought in modern Japan and East Asia. Jiajia Yang is a Ph. D. candidate researcher at Nagoya University. She majors in modern Japanese literature, and comparative literature and culture of Japanese and Chinese. |
