Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement

Part I The Women’s Movement; Chapter 1 Issues for Japanese Feminism, Kanai Yoshiko; Chapter 2 The Women’s Movement: Progress and Obstacles, Kitazawa Yoko, Matsui Yayori, Yunomae Tomoko; Chapter 3 The Movement Today: Difficult but Critical Issues, Ehara Yumiko, Nakajima Michiko, Matsui Yayori, Yunomae Tomoko; Part II Issues Facing Women; Chapter 4 Economic Development and Asian Women, Matsui Yayori; Chapter 5 Ten Years Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Nakano Mami; Chapter 6 Policies of the Japanese Government Toward Women, Hayashi Yoko; Chapter 7 Military Slavery and the Women’s Movement, Yamazaki Hiromi; Chapter 8 Commodified Sex (Sexism): Japan’s Pornographic Culture, Yunomae Tomoko; Chapter 9 Promoting Prostitution, Okura Yayoi; Chapter 10 The Trafficking of Women, Murata Noriko; Chapter 11 In Search of Ruby Moreno, Ann Kaneko; Chapter 12 Lesbians and Sexual Self-Determination, Hara Minako; Chapter 13 The Past and Future of Unai, Sisters in Okinawa, Takazato Suzuyo; Chapter 14 Women and Alternatives to Agricultural Decline, Hikita Mitsuko; Part III Voices of Women; Chapter 15 Commitments to Women’s and Buraku Issues, Suzuki Mieko; Chapter 16 Looking at Sexual Slavery from a Zainichi Perspective, Kim Pu Ja; Chapter 17 My Work as an Ainu Woman, Keira Tomoko; Chapter 18 Mizura: Providing Service to Women in Yokohama, Abe Hiroko; Chapter 19 Promoting Women’s Participation in Yokohama, Sakurai Yoko; Chapter 20 Photography from a Woman’s Perspective, Ooishi Yoshino; Chapter 21 A Cooperative Restaurant on the Miura Coast, Ishiwatari Sadako; Chapter 22 A Women’s Space in Sapporo, Kondo Keiko, Makishita Noriko; Chapter 23 Apron: A Restaurant Run by Women, Taguchi Atsuko; Chapter 24 Working at a Consumer Cooperative, Arimura Junko; Chapter 25 Fighting Back Against Serving Tea, Fukuma Yuko; Chapter 26 From Child-Care to Local Politics, Tomizawa Yoshiko;

Ampo Japan Asia Quarterly Review, Foreword by Charlotte Bunch

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.