Worldwide WAN

The Worldwide WAN (W-WAN) introduces activities of Women's Action Network (WAN) and feminist movements, etc. inside and outside of Japan. We translate selected articles in the main WAN website from Japanese into English as well as other international languages including Chinese and Korean. We also publish W-WAN's original articles on this page.

“Porque eres una chica”. ~Adiós a el rol de género tradicional japonés~ El diario de los abogados defensor contra la discriminación de la mujer en la admisión a la escuela de Medicina (Parte 15) por Junko Nakayama

2020.06.09 Tue

“Junko, deberías ayudar con las tareas domésticas, porque eres una chica”. “junko, no ncesitas estudiar mucho porque eres una chica”. Cuando era niña, siempre me decían: “...porque eres una chica”. Incluso ahora que soy una emleada, me dicen: “las empleadas deben servir té a todos los empleados cada mañana”． ¿Debemos mantener los roles socialmente construidos para las mujeres, desde nuestra infancia hasta la vejez? ¿Debería mantenerse la trad

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Discurso de felicitación en la ceremonia de matrícula de N Bachillerato 2020 por Chizuko Ueno

2020.06.09 Tue

Introducción La doctora Chizuko Ueno es una pionera en los estudios de género en Japón y actualmente es directora de la Red de Acción de Mujeres (Women's Action Network: WAN). El año pasado dio un discurso de felicitación en la ceremonia de matrícula de la Universidad de Tokyo, provocando un gran impacto a la sociedad japonesa. Así mismo, este año, la doctora Ueno dirigió palabras de felicitación a los 5,565 nuevos estudiantes de N Bachillerato d

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Ueno-Sensei, Would You Teach Me Feminism from Scratch? -- Book Introduction

2020.04.08 Wed

This article is a brief introduction of a recently-published feminism-related book in Japan co-authored by our Director Chizuko UENO. She is Japan’s foremost pioneering scholar of feminism to whom women of later generations like myself owe much of the freedom we enjoy now. When I was a university student back in the 80s in Kyoto, Ueno was teaching sociology at a nearby tandai, a women’s two-year college. I remember that my high school female fr

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Chizuko Ueno is quoted in a New York Times article

2020.01.12 Sun

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/asia/tokyo-university-women-japan.html

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Chief Director Chizuko Ueno Appeared at the 24th International Conference for Women in Business July 7th, 2019

2020.01.06 Mon

Chizuko Ueno appeared at a talk show of the 24th International Conference for Women in Business held in Tokyo on July 7th, 2019. It was the first time that Chizuko Ueno participated in a business conference. The International Conference for Women in Business is a conference held and chaired by the founder and CEO of ewoman, Inc., Kaori Sasaki to provide learning and networking opportunities for women business leaders. Themes of the conference ref

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“Nee XXX” on the New Year’s Card --- by Orie Endo [The Words That I Care About, No. 46]

2020.01.05 Sun

Even in this digital age in which many people send their New Year’s greetings through email or social media, nengajo, the New Year’s card, is still very popular. Since I was teaching at a university, New Year’s cards from my former students are especially delightful for me. From their messages and updates I can recall their faces immediately. In those New Year’s cards I find a good number of ones with some strange name of a man written as the s

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New Year's Greetings 2020

2020.01.01 Wed

Happy New Year! This is Chizuko Ueno, Director of WAN. Last year, I went viral with this [speech at the University of Tokyo]! So I got great media exposure, and thanks to that, WAN became widely known. Last year was our 10th anniversary. We held a symposium, “Active Feminism Again – Changing Society with Our Anger.” We went back to where we’d started. When WAN was born, there was a massive backlash against feminism. But after 10 years, thin

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Die aktuelle Realität der Studentinnen

2019.12.28 Sat

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu ihrem Eintritt in die Universität Tokio. Sie sind hier, weil Sie eine harte Konkurrenz an Aufnahmeprüfungen geschafft haben. Die aktuelle Realität der Studentinnen Sie haben wahrscheinlich keinen Zweifel daran, dass die von Ihnen abgenommene Aufnahmeprüfung auf faire Weise durchgeführt wurde. Letztes Jahr wurde jedoch bekannt, dass die Tokio Medical University die Zulassungsverfahren manipuliert hat und weibliche und

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Reseña del libro: Hikari ni mukatte hatte ike -Kaku naki sekai wo oimotomete (Arrástrate hacia la Luz -Persiguiendo un mundo sin armas nucleares) por Setsuko Thurlow

2019.09.07 Sat

Autoras: Setsuko Thurlow y Yumi Kanazaki Editor: Iwanami Shoten Precio: 1,800 yenes (más impuestos) Kiyomi Kawano “Hikari ni mukatte hatte ike -Kaku naki sekai wo oimotomete (Arrástrate hacia la Luz – Persiguiendo un mundo sin armas nucleares)”, es la autobiografía de Setsuko Thurlow, quien dio su discurso durante la ceremonia del Premio Nobel de la Paz, en diciembre de 2017, como representante de una de las hibakusha (sobrevivientes de la bomb

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High School Japanese Culture Study Group in the U.K. Offers Donation to WAN

2019.08.24 Sat

In summer 2019, Women's Action Network received a pleasant offer of donation from Menaka Maruthainar, an organizer of a high school Japanese culture study group in the U.K. Unfortunately at this point, WAN does not accept payment by Pay-Pal or credit card from overseas, so we politely declined the kind offer. However, Worldwide WAN asked her to write about their activities. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Article by Kyodo News on Activities of Chizuko Ueno

2019.08.24 Sat

Kyodo News published an English-language article entitled "Feminist scholar calls Japan's gender problem "human disaster." in June, 2019. Here's the link. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/06/5fbad0a24182-feature-feminist-scholar-calls-japans-gender-problem-human-disaster.html

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Book Review: Crawl toward the Light—Pursuing a World without Nuclear Weapons by Setsuko Thurlow

2019.08.24 Sat

Authors: Setsuko Thurlow, Yumi Kanazaki Publisher: Iwanami Shoten Price: 1,800 yen (plus tax) By Kiyomi KAWANO Hikari ni mukatte hatte ike—Kaku naki sekai wo oimotomete (Crawl toward the Light—Pursuing a World without Nuclear Weapons) is an autobiography of a hibakusha, Setsuko Thurlow, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who represented the ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) at the award ceremony in December 2017, whose brave f

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Ceremonia de matricula de la Universidad de Tokio 2019 Discurso de felicitación por Chizuko Ueno

2019.06.27 Thu

日本語 (Japoneses): https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8334 English (Inglés) : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8348 中文繁体字 (Chino tradicional) : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8347 中文簡体字 (Chino simplificado) : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8345 한국어 (Coreano)：https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8366 ドイツ語 (Alemán)：https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8712 Introducciones La Dra. Ueno Chizuko es una pionera en la investigación de género (estudios femeninos) en

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Chizuko Ueno Has Been Presented a Special Recognition from Finland for Promoting Gender Equality and Gives a Speech at the Embassy

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2019.06.24 Mon

Finland presented a special recognition to individuals and groups around the world who are committed to advance equality, as a part of the country's Hän Campaign (Equality Campaign). Chizuko Ueno, Chief Director of Women's Action Network, was one of the first recipients. Here is the full text of her acceptance speech delivered in English at a ceremony at the Finnish Embassy in Tokyo on June 17 Monday, ”It is my great honor to receive a letter of

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Statement Protesting Discrimination and Exclusion against MtF trans individuals-- Its Background and Consequences

2019.06.09 Sun

According to the Statement Protesting Discrimination and Exclusion against Trans Women, which was uploaded on the WAN site on February 26 as an emergency appeal, the issue of trans women’s entry into public space allocated for the female gender has provoked anxieties and objections- mainly on the internet- since 2018. The Statement was produced by a group of researchers of feminism and sociology staging a campaign to collect signatures for suppor

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2019년 도쿄대학 입학식 축사 입학을 축하드립니다. 여러분은 치열한 경쟁을 뚫고 이 자리에 왔습니다.

2019.05.06 Mon

日本語: https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8334 動画：https://news.tbs.co.jp/sp/newseye/tbs_newseye3648203.htm English : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8348 中文繁体字 : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8347 中文簡体字 : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8345 Español: https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8438 여학생이 놓인 현실 여러분은 입시가 공정한 선발과정이라는 점을 의심하지 않으리라 생각합니다. 만약 불공정하다면 여러분은 화가 끓어오르겠지요. 그런데 작년 도쿄의과대에서 부정 입시가 발각되고서 여학생과 재수생을 차별했다는 사실이 밝혀졌습니다. 문부과학성이 전국 81개 의과대학, 의학부에 전수

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The University of Tokyo 2019 Matriculation Ceremony Congratulatory address by Chizuko Ueno

2019.04.24 Wed

Japanese : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8334 Simplified Chinese : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8345 Traditional Chinese : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8347 Korean：https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8366 Spanish: https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8438 German: https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8712 Congratulations on your entrance to the University of Tokyo. You are here because you won a fierce competition of entrance examinations. T

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平成31年（2019年）东京大学本科新生开学典礼致辞

2019.04.23 Tue

日本語 : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8334 English : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8348 繁体字 : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8347 한국어 : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8366 Español: https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8438 平成31年（2019年）东京大学本科新生开学典礼致辞恭喜大家考入东京大学。你们是在激烈的竞争中脱颖而出才能来到这里的。女生所处的现实想必你们不曾怀疑过入学考试的公正性，倘若知晓，心中难免会忿忿不平吧。然而就在去年，东京医科大学入学考试的舞弊问题被揭发，女生和复读生遭受歧视的事实摆在我们眼前。日本文部科学省对全国的医科大学及综合大学的医学院（总计81处）悉数进行了调查，结果显示，男生合格率平均为女生合格率的1.2倍，反映出女生入学之艰难。东窗事发的

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上野千鶴子氏の平成31年度東京大学学部入学式での祝辞（繁体字中国語・郭台晏さん訳）

2019.04.23 Tue

日本語 : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8334 簡体字 : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8345 English : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8348 한국어 : https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8366 Español: https://wan.or.jp/article/show/8438 恭喜大家入學。你們都是從激烈的競爭中脫穎而出，今天才能來到這裡。 -女學生所處的現實大家應該對於入學考試的公正性沒有任何疑慮，而如果發現當中有不公之處，會感到忿忿不平吧？然而，去年被踢爆的東京醫科大學入學考試黑箱事件中，就發現他們對女學生跟重考生的歧視。文科省針對全國81所醫科大學、醫學部實施了全面性的調查，發現女學生入學的難度之高，也就是相較女學生，男學生的平均合格率高達1.2倍。問題所在的東醫大是1.29倍，最高的是順天堂大的1.67倍，而名列前

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Fight Song for Female Examinees: Diary of LEDAWE––Lawyers Group Advocating Elimination of Gender Discrimination in Entrance Examination for Medical Schools in Japan <1>

2019.02.26 Tue

By Sakura Uchikoshi On August 2, 2018, I held my breath at the news that Tokyo Medical University has deliberately been lowering entrance exam scores of female applicants in order to keep the number of female students below 30%. Not only Tokyo Medical University but Juntendo University, Kitasato University, and St. Mariannna University School of Medicine have, or are suspected of having, similar gender-discriminating scoring practices according

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