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Books on: japanese women culture

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Images of Japanese Women: A Westerner's View

Book by Bettina Liebowitz Knapp; Whitston Press, 1992

Subjects:

Japan--Social Life And Customs, Women Authors, Japanese, Women In Literature--Japan--History, Women--Japan--History

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...of introducing our culture to the world, but...from English into Japanese, those who undertake...addition with our women in the limelight...essays--written by Japanese women throughout the centuries...of the society and culture of which these women...
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Steel Butterflies: Japanese Women and the American Experience

Book by Nancy Brown Diggs; State University of New York Press, 1998

Subjects:

Japanese American Women--Social Conditions, Sex Role--Japan, Sex Role--United States, Women--Japan--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...American women were different from their Japanese counterparts...Japanese culture they tried...one that Japanese culture and the women themselves...the local culture center, and...Are Japanese women willing to...
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Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Book by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden; M.E. Sharpe, 1991

Subjects:

Japanese Fiction--20th Century--Translations Into English, Japanese Fiction--Women Authors--Translations Into English, Short Stories, Japanese--Translations Into English, Women--Japan--Social Life And Customs--Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for ...
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"Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged". -- The New York Times Book Review
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Daughters of the Moon: Wish, Will, and Social Constraint in Fiction by Modern Japanese Women

Book by Victoria V. Vernon; Institute of East Asian Studies, 1988

Subjects:

Fiction, Japanese Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Japanese Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...past of a Japanese culture in which...class of women writers...Japanese culture, it might be observed that Japanese women writers political...codified by the Japanese culture , they approach...fallen" women, outside...
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Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: 5 Japanese Women

Book by Phyllis Birnbaum; Columbia University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Tokyo (Japan)--Biography, Women--Japan--Tokyo--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

-- Janice P. Nimura, New York Times Book Review

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Journal Articles on: japanese women culture

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Migration and Old Age: Japanese Women Growing Older in British Society

Journal article by Misa Izuhara, Hiroshi Shibata; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 32, 2001

Subjects:

Aged women--Social aspects, Japanese--United Kingdom, United Kingdom--Emigration and immigration

Collections: Entire Library

...them (e.g. Japanese schools...helped the women accelerate...the host culture. This certainly...Shifting Spaces: Women, Citizenship...Patterns of Japanese Culture. London...Lebra (eds.), Japanese Culture and Behavior...1991 "Women and migration...
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Language: Instrument of Change for Japanese Women?

Journal article by Kathy Wolfe Farnsley; Women and Language, Vol. 18, 1995

Subjects:

Japan--Social aspects, Language and culture--Analysis, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...not hire women for anything...OReilly 69). Japanese journalist...in Western culture, you first...But in our culture, once you...position of Japanese women continue...Japanese culture in the same...here, and Japanese women already consider...
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The Empress' New Clothes and Japanese Women, 1868-1912

Journal article by Sally A. Hastings; The Historian, Vol. 55, 1993

Subjects:

Clothing, Western--Japan, Haruko, Empress of Japan--Clothing, Japan--Empresses, Social history--Japan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ordinance especially for women to wear a new style...the progress of culture depended on conforming...empress invoked the Japanese past to justify...Hanley, "Material Culture," 461; John Y. Simon...Alice Mabel Bacon, Japanese Girls and Women (Boston, 1902...
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Picture Brides: Japanese Women in Canada

Journal article by Mellie Creighton; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 29, 1998

Subjects:

Books--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...paid work from the husbands family. Clearly these were women who did not necessarily stay tied to marriages, nor...sphere, or with their children. Despite images that Japanese culture has always expected excessive maternal involvement...
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Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance

Journal article by Barbara Sellers-Young; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 25, 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture Through Japanese Dance (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Tachibana method of training to maintain that culture is not enacted on the body but through...in the Tachibana School and its related Japanese ethos. She has brought this stance to...popular medias presentation of Japanese women performers, and by transference Japanese...

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Magazine Articles on: japanese women culture

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Breaking the Mold: Women in Japanese Theatre

Magazine article by Misako Koike; American Theatre, Vol. 14, April 1997

Subjects:

Japan--Social aspects, Japanese--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Theater--Japan, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...the staple images of Japanese women in American popular culture. But how true are they...reflected in the content of Japanese drama - and offstage...independent-minded women. Misako Koike is...American theatre and culture in Japan. This article...
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Culture Matters: Americans through Japanese Eyes

Magazine article by Robin Antepara; Commonweal, Vol. 132, April 8, 2005

Subjects:

Awareness--Analysis, Awareness--Religious aspects, Awareness--Social aspects, Coppola, Sofia--Works, Lost in Translation (Motion picture)--Evaluation, Lost in Translation (Motion picture)--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Indeed, they yearn to be the freewheeling women they see on their TV screens. Still, at...anything found in mainstream American culture. Except, that is, for that which can be...Coppolas Charlotte is the personification of Japanese watchfulness. The camera lingers over...
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Across the Great Divide: In the World's Most Politely Xenophobic Culture, Victoria James Has a Blissful Moment of Belonging

Magazine article by Victoria James; New Statesman, Vol. 135, August 7, 2006

Subjects:

Interpersonal relations--Analysis, Japanese culture--Analysis, Xenophobia--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...politely xenophobic of cultures. And I guarantee that...youve ever read by a non-Japanese of their time in Japan...the martial arts dojo. Women often find their way...of Japans traditional culture. Memoirs of a Geisha...tiny red rosebud, the Japanese have been immersing themselves...
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Group Orientation and Japanese Business

Magazine article by Kanji Haitani; Business Perspectives, Vol. 4, Fall 1990

Subjects:

Corporate culture--Japan, Corporations, Japanese--Social aspects, Japan--Social aspects, Japanese--Attitudes

Collections: Entire Library

...and performance. Talented and capable women, minorities, foreigners, and people without...out of the higher management ranks of Japanese corporations. Such a waste of human talent...organizations. Because of their foreign culture, language, religion, and citizenship...
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Between Bushido and Black Humour: Stewart Lone Looks beyond the Idea of the Impassive, Self-Sacrificing Citizen to Discover How Ordinary Japanese People Really Reacted to the War with Russia, 1904-05

Magazine article by Stewart Lone; History Today, Vol. 55, September 2005

Subjects:

Bushido--Analysis, Bushido--Influence, Japanese (Asian people)--Analysis, Japanese (Asian people)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Japanese--Analysis, Japanese--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905--Analysis, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905--History, Stereotype (Psychology)--Influence, Stereotypes (Psychology)--Influence

Collections: History, Psychology, Entire Library

...This impression of a culture and people suffused in...army observer with the Japanese forces in 1904-05. It...both as teachers and as women by principals or local...2002); Janet Hunter, Japanese Women at Work, 1880-1920 (May...

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Newspaper Articles on: japanese women culture

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Battered Japanese Women Speak Up

Newspaper article by Takehiko Nomura; The Washington Times, February 9, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...domestic violence gets public attention in Japan. When Japanese women are battered, they dont usually tell others or seek...present in every country, cutting across boundaries of culture, class, education, income, ethnicity and age," says...
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I WAS STALKED LIKE LINDSAY; Chilling Notes Hand Delivered Late at night.Sexual Taunts. And,finally,a Brutal Encounter with Her Vicious Tormentor. Another British Teacher Describes Howshe Nearly Suffered the Same Fate as Lindsay Hawker at the Hands of a Japanese Man Obsessed with Western Women

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 10, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...curvaceous than Japanese women, the local men can...learn about other cultures. My trip to Japan...all the Western women and wouldnt look...because generally the culture seemed very restrained...from talking to Japanese people that even...
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SEXISM & THE CITY; Pornography, Lewd Abuse, Chauvinism and Bullying. as These Highflying Women Reveal, the Biggest Firms in the City Are Still Riddled with a Shameful Culture of Machismo . .

Newspaper article by Helen Weathers; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 20, 2002

Subjects:

Nomura International PLC

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...perpetuating a culture where sexism is...highprofile cases where women are taking their...LAST year the Japanese finance house...loutishly male culture which is considered...between men and women in the City sends...how firms value women, she says. Secondly...male-dominated culture, it is perceived...
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RETIRE AT 60? WE'RE HAVING TOO MUCH FUN; Soon Women Will Have to Work Past 60 to Receive Their State Pension, but Already Many Are Choosing to Do So Because They Enjoy Their Careers. Here Five Over-60s Explain Why They Have No Desire to Retire

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 12, 2006

Subjects:

Occupations, Pensions, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...career was a genuine option. Were seeing women coming through who have been in the labour...disabled people. At 62 she was left a Japanese sake importing business by a friend and...added a new dimension to my life - a new culture, new friends in Japan. Plus, I can run...
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My Emperor's Visit Claws at a Wound That Needs Many More Years to Heal .. but Please Don't Hate All Japanese; AN HONEST PLEA TO THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN BY MIRROR COLUMNIST TONY PARSONS' JAPANESE WIFE YURIKO

Newspaper article by Yuriko Parsons; The Mirror (London, England), May 27, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...tortured and killed the PoWs. They were dropped on innocent women, children and old people. But those nuclear bombs changed Japan. The Japanese people of today love and respect British culture. Please open your hearts and your eyes - the Japanese...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: japanese women culture

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Japanese Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Chinese and central Asian culture is reflected in the objects...Throughout its history Japanese art has relied heavily...the features of men and women reflects the extreme...1986); P. Fister, Japanese Women Artists, Sixteen Hundred...
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Japanese Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...literature of note was written by aristocratic women, foremost among whom was Murasaki Shikibu...elegance always an important element of the Japanese aesthetic. Ki no Tsurayuki was the leading...economic conditions that led to a thriving culture of the bourgeoisie. Early Edo prose literature...
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Japan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Koizumi to allow women, and children through...succeed to the Japanese throne (because...reassertion of Japanese claims to the...had forced Asian women to serve in its...1989); T. Ishida, Japanese Political Culture (1989); E. O...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...envisioned a great popular culture evolving in America...Co-Prosperity Sphere." After the Japanese takeover of French Indochina...young men and many young women. The creation of a great...Aspects of American culture are discussed under...Courage: A History of Women in the United States...
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Name

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in most European cultures the surname follows...names in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages...the mid-20th cent. women in the United States...marriage; other women and some couples...partner. In many cultures the name is of supernatural...family totem. In some cultures the name given the...

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