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Worldwide WANThe 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.
2017.05.07 Sun
QUESTION FROM READER I have been in the trouble of AC (adult children) problem and was treated bullying in school. My family is a kind of dysfunctional family. Mother has a strong distortion on gender issue and tries to justify her discrimination on my sibling by saying it is natural that mother is fond of son more than daughter. She, who ignores grandfather’s violence against grandmother and that of my brother’s against me, also believes wo
Labels: Online Counseling
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 prolific composers, brilliant musicians but often not acknowledged and many times in the shadow of their male counterparts. Over a 12 month period between 2015 and 2016, I researched and wrote essays about some well known women composers for the WAN web in Japanese. The series is ti
Labels: Essays
2017.04.26 Wed
This year's symposium of the Women's Action Network (WAN) is scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 20 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, under the theme of "Society Begins with You: Push Your Boundaries." TANAKA Yuko, President of Hosei University will give the keynote speech, calling for action to change our society now. Various social actions and movements will be shared in the following presentations and panel discussions. The speakers include an
2017.03.16 Thu
QUESTION FROM READER I studied sexual harassment issues in a college course on labor laws, and realized that my friend seemed to be the victim of sexual harassment by her boss. This friend got her job only in this spring after graduating from junior college. She told me that she was forcibly invited for a dinner, taken to a massage lounge with him, and taken home by his car with no specific reason. I have come to believe it is a sexual harassmen
Labels: Online Counseling
2017.02.21 Tue
Exemption from registration fee and financial support for stays in Florianópolis are two types of benefits that may be requested by participants in the 13th Women’s Worlds Congress and 11th Doing Gender Seminar. The registration deadline for assistance requests is 28/02/2017. According to the event’s general coordination, the following are eligible to apply for assistance: author(s) who have had papers approved for oral communication in the
Labels: Event Information
2017.01.25 Wed
QUESTION FROM READER I have been working as a part timer at a nearby supermarket for 10 years. I started to be responsible for various things as a middle-level managerial worker. The store chief who has just started, however, seems to dislike me, makes trivial complains, and tries to correct me in front of the staff. It looks to me that, under his influence, other staff now avoid me and follow the chief’s orders only but not mine. One day, my c
Labels: Online Counseling
2017.01.24 Tue
The following is an edited translation of a blog article by Chizuko Ueno about her participation in a symposium held at Raicho no Ie, or The House of Raicho, which is a small museum in Ueda City featuring the feminist writer Raicho (1886-1971). I was invited as the key note speaker for a symposium with the theme Living a Single Life in Rural Areas, which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the venue, the House of Raicho. When I
Labels: Organizations
2016.12.28 Wed
Laurel Hester, a dedicated detective for more than 20 years in Ocean County, New Jersey, U.S. meets a young woman called Stacie Andree, a car mechanic, and falls in love with her. Regardless the age and background differences, they develop a firm relationship as irreplaceable partners and get to buy a suburban house to live in together. But before long, Laurel is diagnosed with terminal cancer and finds out she has only six months left to live.
Labels: Cinema (C-WAN)
2016.12.25 Sun
“Why is this man still complaining about such a thing?” I was disguised by a post by a 79-year-old man on the agony column of The Asahi Shinbun issued 29 October. He said he couldn’t forget many women he had had relationships with in his youth, and all of them rejected him when he called them. He wanted to stop thinking about them and enjoy his life in the way a typical man does, but he just didn’t know what to do. I thought it was such a silly
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2016.12.17 Sat
Heidi Hartmann, a respected friend of mine, recently wrote to me on the presidential election in the US. She showed a serious concern about the world with President Trump. As one representative opinion on Trump, I would like to share her comment on the WAN website with her permission. About the author: a prominent Marxist feminist, author of “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism.” Currently President of the Institute for Women’s Policy Re
Labels: OVERSEAs
2016.12.13 Tue
What are you afraid of?, a documentary film by MATSUI Hisako that features WAN’s director UENO Chizuko and several other feminist forerunners in Japan, was screened at the University of Toronto in Canada on October 17. Ueno, who was visiting Canada for other conferences and speeches, appeared in the theatre in person after the film screening and answered questions by diverse audience. The various subjects of questions included different surname
Labels: Lecture
2016.12.13 Tue
QUESTION I am a house wife in my 40s having a 6 years old daughter. I have been troubled with my daughter. I sleep beside her. One night my daughter asked me a question in the bed. She said,” I wanted to be born as a man because a woman gets killed when she becomes around 20 years old. Is that right? I don’t want to get killed. How can I avoid it?” I couldn’t comprehend what she meant and asked her several questions. It seems that she became a
Labels: Online Counseling
2016.12.01 Thu
Author: Maiko Kodaira Publisher: Kawade Shobo Shinsha (2016.9.13) What does “cultural intelligence” mean for woman? In order to understand why women’s dreams have not come true, we can investigate aspects of Japanese liberal arts culture. “Cultural intelligence” is a broad term that encompasses an array of elements from profound knowledge and intelligibility to must-read books, sophisticated hobbies and manners, and the “common sense” that guide
Labels: 著者・編集者からの紹介 Reading
2016.11.29 Tue
While the Women’s Liberation Movement was flourishing in the 1970s, a meeting was held in Nagano. It was called “Lib Camp.” The number of women who attended the camp was about 300. Some came from Hokkaido in the Northern part of Japan, others came from Kyushu in the southern part. Some even brought their children. Those who wanted to attend the camp had to follow interesting directions. “Join by yourself. Use slow trains. Walk to the camp from th
Labels: Cinema (C-WAN)
2016.11.29 Tue
- Registration of proposals for: Posters, Forum Contributions, Workshops, Mini-courses - Registration of proposals for Oral Communication in Thematic Symposium - Submission of Artistic and Cultural Interventions - Registration for the Photography Exhibition - Registration for the II International Exhibition Art and Gender Deadlines are approaching! Check the dates through the links and send your proposal! Caso não esteja conseguindo visualizar
Labels: Other
2016.11.22 Tue
The 32nd Ueno Seminar of WAN December 11, 2016 Musashino City, Tokyo, Japan Lecture The Devouring Empire: “Eating the Other” in Modern Japanese Narratives and Memories Lecturer HORIGUCHI Noriko J. Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Tennessee Time & Day: 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Sunday, December 11, 2016 Venue: Meeting Room, 2nd floor, Sky Gate Tower, Musashino
Labels: Event Information Ueno Seminar
2016.11.17 Thu
November 28, 2016 Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi City, Tokyo, Japan BOOK REVIEW SESSION Mary Louise Roberts, 2013, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (University of Chicago Press) Presenters: NAKAMURA Eri (Graduate Researcher, Hitotsubashi University) TAKEMOTO Niina (Researcher, Rikkyo University) Special Guest: SATO Fumika (Professor of Gender Studies, Sociology, Hitotsubashi University, and Transla
Labels: Event Information Ueno Seminar
2016.11.02 Wed
On October 22, 2016, a symposium was held to examine the effectiveness of the Act Concerning Promotion of Women’s Career Activities (PWCA). Based on the 1999 Basic Act for Gender Equal Society, the PWCA was enacted in August, 2015, with a limited effective period of 10 years to increase opportunities for women in workplaces. Large organizations in both public and private sectors are now obliged to set quantitative targets such as 30% of the leade
2016.10.05 Wed
Chizuko Ueno in Toronto! WAN's president Chizuko Ueno will be giving lectures at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto this October. The following is information on events to be held at the U of T. Event 1 Documentary Film: “What are you afraid of?” Lives of Women who Lived Feminism in Japan (1970’s - present) – The Personal is Political – Monday, October 17, 2016 9:30am – 12 noon At Media Commons Audiovisual
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