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• “Girls, too?” Why “too?”

  

  2018.03.16 Fri

  By Orie Endo This article was in The Asahi Shimbun newspaper, February 22nd, on page 7 of the Tokyo edition. The headline reads: College Enrollment Will Drop by 120 Th…

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  タグ：セクシュアリティ / 性表現

• Fairy Tale and Sexual Violence --- Prince’s Kiss Is Quasi-Sexual Assault! by Kazue Muta

  

  2017.12.31 Sun

  In December, 2017, a man was arrested on a charge of quasi-sexual assault, for kissing a sleeping woman on the train in Osaka. Yes, many of us have an experiece of fallin…

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  タグ：DV・性暴力・ハラスメント / セクシュアリティ / Feminism / 情報社会 / DV / 上野千鶴子 / 文学 / 牟田和恵 / セクハラ / ソーシャル・メディア / 社会通念 / ツイッター

• Temporary workers have opinions！

  

  2017.07.06 Thu

  This WAN website has a section titled “temporary workers have opinions!” In Japan, the number of temporary workers called “haken” has been increasing, perhaps reflecting …

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  タグ：仕事・雇用 / セクシュアリティ

• YY-WAN Forum: Happiness Depends on Marriage Registration?

  

  2017.06.19 Mon

  I was invited to lunch by a division manager before my maternity leave and was chatting with him over tempura rice bowl. The following was a conversation between he and I…

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  タグ：非婚・結婚・離婚 / 家族 / 多様な家族

• Dear readers of the world wide WAN

  

  2017.04.29 Sat

  In the world of music many of the better recognized pieces have often been composed by men. However, in reality there were many women composers in the past that were pro…

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  タグ：音楽 / 石本裕子 / ピアノ

• The Words I Care About [No.1] “My kid was rejected by a nursery school. Go to hell, Japan!!!”

  

  2016.06.27 Mon

  　　My kid was rejected by a nursery school. Go to hell, Japan!!! 　　What the heck is this, Japan? 　　Isn't this a society where all 100 million people can take active parts…

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  タグ：仕事・雇用 / 女性政策 / 子育て・教育 / 保育園 / ジェンダー分析 / 子育て世代 / 子育て支援

• Essay by Orie Endo　　The Words That I Care about [No. 3] 　　Whose “Oku-san”?

  

  2016.05.14 Sat

  I was cooking in the evening with the sound of the TV in the background, when a funny use of words caught my ear. I looked at the screen and saw a nervous-looking sturdy …

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  タグ：くらし・生活 / ジェンダー / 夫婦

• A Boy Suffocated in a Plastic Case

  

  2016.04.30 Sat

  A Boy Suffocated in a Plastic Case In Fukui Prefecture, north-central part of Japan, a father locked his son in a plastic ca…

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  発達障害かも知れない子供と育つということ

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  タグ：子育て・教育

• A Social Mechanism that Binds a Definition: The Reappropriation of “Housework Harassment” in Japan.

  

  2014.10.06 Mon

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• In the Muddy Waters of Historical Revisionism: Isolated from International Society (Part 3)

  

  2014.10.05 Sun

  by Kazuko Itō, Lawyer and Human Right ActivistExcerpt from her Blog(Part 1)(Part 2)Unusual Criticism by UN Human Rights Top OfficialHigh Commissioner for Human Rights, Na…

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