New Books from Japan #6: “Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire,” Friday, May 31, 2024, 9:00-10:30 PM KST

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Sounds like another wild Friday night!

Tatsuya Kageki (Keio University) presenting the new book “Women in Asia Under the Japanese Empire” in conversation with Marnie Anderson (Smith College). Register for Zoom here: https://mjha.org/event-5684823

Presenter: 蔭木 達也 (Tatsuya Kageki, Keio University)

Discussant: Marnie Anderson (Smith College)

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 colonized, 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, Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, Mainland China, Micronesia, 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 studied 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.

本書は、植民地と占領地における日本帝国の政策とプロパガンダ、特に女性への影響を評価し、ジェンダー分析の視点からアジアの女性史を提示する。メディア、旅行、移住、文学、被植民者による帝国に対する認識などのトピックを扱いながら、著者はジェンダー研究の視点と日本帝国の空間的・政治的レンズによって統一された折衷的な歴史を提示する。寄稿者たちは、台湾、朝鮮、満州、中国本土、ミクロネシア、沖縄などの女性の生き方を見ている。これらの女性たちは、妻であり、母であり、作家であり、移住者であり、知識人であり、活動家であったため、大日本帝国に対する非常に幅広い見方と経験を持っていた。これまで女性は帝国システムの対象として研究される傾向にあったが、本書の寄稿者たちは彼女たちを歴史の主体として研究し、同時に他のアジア人による大日本帝国へのアウトサイド・インな視点も提供している。

See you there! :D

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Originally posted on: https://thegrandnarrative.com/2024/05/29/women-in-asia-under-the-japanese-empire/