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World War II - The "Japanese Question" Confronts the State

Racial Hatred Unleashed. Photo of Ai Hitaka in traditional Japanese dress. Many Issei women, first generation Japanese immigrants, such as Ai Hitaka shown ...

The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan

The Japan Times (print and online newspaper) says: The women who share their stories in the documentary are a diverse group. Their children range in age from ...

Why Such Few Women in Leadership Positions in Japan?

While Japan has made considerable progress in achieving higher female employment in the last decade, more than half of women still work in non- ...

The Unseen Women of Japan: Marginalization of Single Mothers

Although women's lives are dictated by the feminine ideal of motherhood and the domestic household in almost any country, in Japan, this has continued to affect ...

Japanese men have an identity crisis - The Economist

In Japan, relations between men and women are shifting as marriage rates decline and more women enter the workforce. But the idea that men are breadwinners ...

Japanese American Relocation Camps - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Allbritton, Nicole Ashley. “The Women of Japanese-American Internment, with Emphasis on Rohwer and Jerome.” MA thesis, University of Arkansas, ...

The Plight of the woman-breadwinner - UNESCO Digital Library

... Japanese broadcasting system, are women. In the print media, the picture is really no better. As far as can be established, women rarely account for more ...

Japan's New Diplomatic Pillar: Women, Peace, and Security - CSIS

Japan has recently strengthened its efforts on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. This diplomatic approach unlocks new international ...

Film shines spotlight on plight of Japan's single mothers - Tulsa World

The women work hard, sleeping only a few hours a night, as they juggle the demands of caring for their children and doing housework — all while suffering ...

Filmmaker looks at plight of single mothers in Japan

The problems facing single mothers are “largely ignored,” he said, noting the incongruence between Japan's rich, technologically advanced ...

World War II Japanese American Incarceration - National Archives

The Army Serial Number Enlistment Card Records table has records for almost nine million men and women who enlisted in the Army and the Women's ...

FEATURE: Film spotlights Vietnamese temporary workers' plight in ...

While the plot is fictional, the women's situations are all too real in Japan, where in recent years the government-sponsored technical intern ...

Plays and Biographies | Asian and Asian American Studies

Japanese American Resource Library Plays Asian American Women Playwrights ... Fred Korematsu challenges his arrest and the treatment of other Japanese Americans ...

The Plight of Afghan Women Under the Taliban: No Respite in Sight

The situation is just as challenging for employed women working in public health, security, arts, and crafts, as their pay is extremely low, ...

Japan is rich, but many of its children are poor - Prince George Citizen

TOKYO (AP) — The women work hard, sleeping only a few hours a night, as they juggle the demands of caring for their children and doing ...

A Japanese Lesson by Silvana Paternostro - Words Without Borders

They know that most women quit soon after getting married. The obligation of keeping a house and raising children is too much to manage. Shirley ...

Incarcerated Japanese Americans at Death Valley

Women and children on the steps of a makeshift infirmary, staffed by one nurse and one nurse's aide, for Japanese Americans incarcerated at Cow ...

Film documents the plight of single mothers in otherwise rich Japan

Japanese society also tends to favor full-time male workers, and women often receive lower wages and fewer benefits, even when they are ...

The plight of migrant care workers in Japan: A qualitative study of ...

The main stressors of migrant care workers in Japan were coworker relationship, language barrier, and work-life balance.

Japan is rich, but many of its children are poor - Winnipeg Free Press

TOKYO (AP) — The women work hard, sleeping only a few hours a night, as they juggle the demands of caring for their children and doing housework ...