Posted in Gender, Media, tagged comfort women, feminism, japan, Korea, LGBT, marriage equality on 2016/01/09| 2 Comments »
In this Gender Reader: Japan and South Korea reach a “final” decision about the “comfort women” issue, Kensuke Miyazaki attempts to take parental leave, the real story behind the “can’t hide it forever” plastic surgery meme and the model whose career it destroyed, and more!
Copyright BBC. “Lee Yong-soo (centre) has taken part in protests outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul.” [Image: three protesters, including Lee Yong-soo, a former ‘comfort woman,’ protests at the Japanese embassy in Seoul]”
Posted in Gender, Language, Translation, Visual Culture, tagged いのちリスペクト, ホワイトリボン・キャンペーン, beauty, China, 生理休暇, Elliot Rodger, gendered pronouns, history of beauty, hurricanes, Isla Vista, ＬＧＢＴの学校生活に関する実態調査(2013) 結果報告書, japan, Lean In, LGBT students, linguistics, menstrual leave, misogyny, patriarchy, satire, sexism, singular they, YesAllWomen on 2014/06/04| 1 Comment »
Utagawa Kunimasa, “Young Woman and a Cat at a Kotatsu”
Tokyo National Museum. Ukiyo-e, Nihon bijutsu zenshū, Tokugawa, (Comprehensive Collection of Japanese Art) vol. 20 (Kōdansha, 1991), p. 34. Via Japan Focus.
I ended up skipping the May reader since I was busy with the edits for the cross-dressing in anime and manga series. However, the gender issue rightfully on everyone’s mind in May was Elliot Rodger and #YesAllWomen. I don’t have much to contribute that conversation other than a link to a list of well written articles below, but I do have some more articles to share about gender in Japan.
In this gender reader: the history of beauty in Japan and China, gendered pronouns in Japanese and English, a survey of LGBT students in Japan, a collection of essential articles about Isla Vista, and more.
Posted in Festivals, Fukui, tagged 福井県立恐竜博物館, dinosaur, doll festival, Fukui, Fuui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Girls' Day, Hina Matsuri, japan on 2014/03/05| 1 Comment »
I’m a few days late for Hina Matsuri (ひな祭り), celebrated on March 3, but trust me, there’s always time for dinosaur courtiers.
Via Fukui Shimbun
2014 is the third year in which the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum has commemorated Hina Matsuri with a display of dinosaurs playing the role of the Heian-period courtiers. Sources describe the dinosaurs as キモかわいい (気持ち悪い＋可愛い) – grotesquely cute. The Fukuiraptor is the Emperor Doll, and the Fukuisaurus is the Empress doll. (more…)
Posted in Gender, Race, tagged comic, facebook, Gender, gender expression, japan, Masuzoe, onsen, Princess Princess, public baths, race, Rie Alkemade, sento, sex strike, skin whitening, strangelykatie, TERF, trans*, transgender, transphobic, women in yakuza, yakuza on 2014/02/19| Leave a Comment »
In this gender reader: the gendered politics of skin-whitening creams; public bathing; bad reporting on the “sex strike”; Facebook genders; and more–and I even think we can get through this without a discussion of giri-choco!
Chanel’s Le Blanc (ルブラン) skin-whitening cream. Image via Chanel Japan.
Posted in Race, Reblog, tagged ハーフ, documentary, film, half, japan, mixed race, multiracial, Osaka, race on 2014/02/10| Leave a Comment »
More information on screenings of Hafu/ハーフ documentary in Osaka courtesy of Japan Sociology:
This blog has discussed the film and related issues regarding hafu (people of mixed Japanese ancestry) many times, and the fine folks at the Hafu Project have graced our classrooms on several occasions. This film is an important step in a movement toward a more inclusive notion of Japanese identity. Come be a part of the conversation, and see the film in Osaka before it closes on February 21.
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Posted in Ishikawa, Noto, Visual Culture, tagged わくたまくん, Ishikawa, japan, mascot, onsen, Wakura Onsen, wakutama-kun, 和倉温泉 on 2013/12/18| 1 Comment »
Pre-holiday rush and year-end sexism burnout got you down? Let’s bring in some warm fuzzy feelings with an adorable mascot. We’ve got to take a cute break before continuing on our fun-ruining rampage through pop culture, right? All sarcasm aside, let me introduce you to my favorite Ishikawa mascot, Wakutama-kun, the soft-boiled onsen egg (温泉卵) of Wakura Onsen (和倉温泉).
Image from Wakura Onsen‘s website.
Posted in Expat Living, Gender, Race, tagged Abe, Abenomics, coeducation, feminism, Gender, gender gap index, gender reader, harassment, japan, misogyny, racism, rape culture, sexism, University of Michigan, womenomics on 2013/11/30| 3 Comments »
In this gender reader, doing some catching up from October (when I did a spooky gender reader instead): harassment of non-Japanese women in Japan; bottoming out a whopping #105 in the Gender Gap Index; the problem with all the patronizing “sexless” Japan journalism; and Social Justice Wario.
Frequency of sex vs fertility rate via Yuki Aota.
Posted in Race, Reblog, tagged ハーフ, diversity, hafu, japan, Megumi Nishikura, mixed race, TEDxKyoto 2013, video on 2013/11/05| 2 Comments »
Reblog from JAPANsociology–check out Megumi Nishikura’s TEDxKyoto talk on the Hafu film.
by Robert Moorehead
In September, filmmaker Megumi Nishikura gave a powerful, moving, and extremely personal presentation at TEDxKyoto. Her film, Hafu, is showing in theaters around the world, and offers an insightful look into the experiences of five hafu in Japan. The film opens in Kobe on November 23, and I can’t wait to see it.
Posted in Culture, Media, Race, Visual Culture, tagged ハーフ, discrimination, double, hafu, japan, mixed race, multicultural, racism on 2013/10/07| 4 Comments »
I got a great comment from Maya on “Video: ‘White Japanese People – 白人系日本人'” about how mixed-race people living in Japan are also often treated as “foreigners,” and I wanted to share some recent links on that subject.
Image via The Diplomat.
Posted in Culture, Gender, tagged Anything That Loves, dudebro, dwango, j-jobs, japan, joshi-mane, Korea, non-binary sexuality, patriarchy, Self Defense Force, sexism, sociology on 2013/09/29| Leave a Comment »
In this Japan gender reader: Dwango grabs some girls from the steno pool circa 1950 and puts them in tracksuits; how the koseki (family registry) continues to ostracize residents of Japan; and is the patriarchy dead–a qualified NO. Read on!
Dwango’s joshi-mane: when health care is feminized. Run, ladies, run away! Image via Akihabara News.
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The Lobster Dance 