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.

Report of the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation Visit - Prior to the opening of the Peace Memorial Museum of the Comfort Women and Women’s Rights

2013.12.31 Tue

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Procedure and conditions to receive online counseling in English for women living in Japan

2013.12.30 Mon

ABOUT THE COUNSELOR KIYOMI KAWANO The orientation of this online counseling is based upon the idea and the practice of feminist therapy counseling that launched early 1970s. It has grown together with feminist movement.At that time, there were many feminist psychiatrists, including Dr. Judith Herman as well as psychologists such as Dr. Phyllis Chesler, all of whom had inevitably engaged in the movement from the beginning. They got together and di

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Concept of Worldwide Women’s Action Network (W-WAN)

2013.12.30 Mon

The Worldwide Women’s Action Network (W-WAN) is a sub-group of the Women’s Action Network (WAN) based out of Japan. W-WAN’s mission is to introduce activities and activism by and for women in Japan through a platform of international languages. We also offer translations of articles published on the WAN website, currently in English, Chinese (both in traditional and simplified characters), Korean, and Spanish. W-WAN project launched in the summe

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Chernobyl Children’s Fund Made a 2014 Benefit Calendar for Children in Chernobyl and Fukushima

2013.11.30 Sat

Photo by Ryuichi HirokawaThe 2014 Calendar for Children in Chernobyl and Fukushima (28th Anniversary) consists of pictures of children in Chernobyl and Fukushima who are spending time at sanatoriums. The following photo for the month of March shows children from Fukushima who are playing energetically with their hands and feet in the sand without caring about radiation. Some of them were born after March 11, so it is

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What’s New on WAN’s Website as of November 24, 2013

2013.11.24 Sun

Essay“Being Invited to Parlament der Generationen by Germany’s Ministry of Education and Science”Written by FUCHS, Marikohttp://wan.or.jp/reading/?p=12711Book Review　Social History of Sanitary Goods: From Taboo to Major BusinessAuthored by TANAKA HikaruPublished by Miminerva Shobo (August 25, 2013)http://wan.or.jp/book/?p=7313Activity Report for Preventing Cognitive Impairment No.5“Responding to the Needs of Highly-aging Society: Ten Year History

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Child Abuse and the Poverty of Women

2013.11.01 Fri

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2013.09.26 Thu

On the occasion of the visit of Ms. Annemarie Jorritsma, Former Vice-Prime Minister of the Netherlands and current Mayor of Almere, we have the honour to invite you to the following seminar. The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Political Section Women in Public Office – Showing the Way to a Better Work-Life Balance? A seminar on the promotion of gender equality Of all OECD member countries Japan scores worst in almost all categories c

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2013.09.26 Thu

5th Ewha Global Empowerment Program 2013 Winter“Transnational Feminisms and Women’s Activism”January 12 ~ 26, 2014Ewha Womans UniversitySeoul, South KoreaApplication Submission: September 30 ~ October 13, 2013 EGEP is a two-week residential educational program that takes place twice a year (summer and winter) offered by Ewha Womans University. According the MOU between Ewha Womans University and UN Women, this program aims to promote education

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2013.09.18 Wed

Film Screening Leonie and The Director's talkEvent Title: Film Screening Leonie and The Director's TalkEvent URL: Film Screening Leonie and The Director's TalkOrganizer: The Group of watching Leonie in Osaka / Osaka Gender Equality FoundationOrganizer's URL: http://www.ogef.jp/Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013Time: 10:30-16:30Venue: Dawn Center (Osaka Prefectural Center for Youth and Gender Equality) HallVenue URL: http://www.dawncenter.or.jp/shis

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Sunset, Tacos, and the Film Subjects: Production Notes of A New Film “Talking Back: Theater for Breaking the Silence” (Tentative Title)

2013.08.31 Sat

Kaori Sakagami(Documentary Film Director) Stories move from the shadows to the limelight. And though the stage too often presents the drama of our powerlessness, the shadows offer the secret of our power.

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"Queering Friendship: Takemura Kazuko" by J. Keith Vincent

2013.08.12 Mon

Queering Friendship:Takemura Kazuko: Feminism and Queer Theory in a Global ContextJ. Keith VincentBoston University (A Talk Presented at “Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Japanese Feminism”, Emory University, April 20, 2013)Takemura Kazuko was a key figure at the intersection of feminist and queer thought in Japan from the 1990s until her death in 2011, at the age of 57. She was well known as a queer feminist scholar of English and American l

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Book review: Why Couldn’t Hiroshima Stop Fukushima?

2013.06.27 Thu

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Eulogies to Kazuko Takemura (9): J. Keith Vincent

2013.06.26 Wed

To honor the memory of the late Kazuko Takemura, a feminist famous for her activism as well as introducing theorists such as Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Gayatri Chaktravorty Spivak and Trinh T. Minh-ha to Japan, WAN is posting a series of eulogies delivered by her fellow activists and scholars both from Japan and overseas.

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Association of Article 96 Started, Protesting against Prime Minister ABE’s Attempt to Amend It

2013.06.24 Mon

THE CONSTITUTION OF JAPAN Promulgated on November 3, 1946 Came into effect on May 3, 1947 Article 96. Amendments to this Constitution shall be initiated by the Diet, through a concurring vote of two-thirds or more of all the members of each House and shall thereupon be submitted to the people for ratification, which shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast thereon, at a special referendum or at such election as the

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Check the Archives of Feminist Newsletters Through Document-WAN

2013.05.30 Thu

On May 25th, Document-WAN finally started its service. Now you can browse digitized feminist newsletters that have been distributed to a limited readership. Check out the archives.http://wan.or.jp/document/web/dantai

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Chizuko Ueno "Forty Years of Japanese Feminism"

2013.05.17 Fri

Chizuko Ueno, "Forty Years of Japanese Feminism: What it has achieved…and what it has not" April 22, 2013, 5:00pm International House 1414 E. 59th St. Chicago IL. 60637 The University of Chicago Committee on Japanese Studies is pleased to welcome Chizuko Ueno, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University, for the 2013 Najita Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies. A sociologist by training, Professor Ueno is one of the leading feminist critics and

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2013.05.01 Wed

To Grow With The Child Who May Have Developmental Disabilities #2 By Akizuki Nanami Thursday, October 4, 2012 We sometimes hear that “disability is a personality.” It sounds good in words, but when I hear people who have no first-hand experience ever in this matter say this, I want to tell them, “It’s not so simple.” The bottom line is that the word, “disability,” insinuate some kind of “handicap” although we know it’s not referring to the “h

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DVD Preview: Hollywood and Asian Women

2013.03.06 Wed

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"Imposing Words": Embroideries by Ruri Clarkson

2013.03.03 Sun

Needlework has long been perceived as women's work. "Imposing Words: Contemporary Family Matters" by Ruri Clarkson exhibits embroidery works that sew together contemporary women's voices. The exhibition takes place from March 14 to 20, 2013, at Nidi Gallery (free admission). (C) Ruri Clarkson 2013From Press Release:Ruri Clarkson will present her new work “IMPOSING WORDS: Contemporary family matters” at Nidi gallery. Her exhibition will highlight

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A Society Where We Can Turn “Disability” into “Individuality”

2013.02.26 Tue

Some people say “Disability is individuality.” The word sounds very pretty, but I feel it simplifies the problems too much when it’s used by people who don’t know much about the disabled. Those who are called “the disabled” are “handicapped,” at least, in some ways. But they don’t handicap themselves; rather, it’s their circumstances that handicap them. People with myopia, for example, would have great difficulty in their social life without ai

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