INTPART Reading list: Gender in Japan

Gender in Japan Reading List
Basic Statistics
National Women’s Education Center (2019) Women and Men in Japan 2019,https://www.nwec.jp/en/research/lrfhnn0000000469-att/2019Engdata.pdf
Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office (2019) Women and Men in Japan 2019,http://www.gender.go.jp/english_contents/pr_act/pub/pamphlet/women-and-men19/index.html
Japanese Society
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (1997) Re-inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation: Nation, Culture, Identity (Japan inthe Modern World), Routledge
Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long (2014) Capturing Contemporary Japan:Differentiation and Uncertainty, University of Hawaii Press.
Andrea Germer (Eds.) (2017) Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan (ASAA Women in Asia Series),Routledge
Gender Gap, Feminism, Social Movement
Gill Steel ed. (2019) Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan. University of Michigan Press.
Bullock, J., A. Kano and J. Welker (2018) Rethinking Japanese Feminisms. University of Hawaii Press.
Hasunuma, Linda and Ki-young Shin (2019) “#MeToo in Japan and South Korea: “#WithYou, #WeToo.”
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 40(1):97-111.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1563416
Gender and Families
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako (2019) “Japanese Child Caring Men (Ikumen) and Achieving Work-Life Balance.”
Meier-Gräwe, Uta, Motozawa, Miyoko and Schad-Seifert, Annette (Eds.). Family Life in Japan andGermany: Challenges for a Gender-Sensitive Family Policy. Springer. pp.177-198.
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako (2018) “Raising Children and the Emergence of New Fatherhood in Super-AgingJapan.” In Heinrich, Patrick and Galan, Christian (Eds.). Being Young in Super Aging Japan:
Formative Events and Cultural Reactions. Routledge. pp.69-83.
Kumagai, Fumie and Ishii-Kuntz, Masako (Eds.) (2016) Family Violence in Japan: A Life-Course
Perspective. Springer.
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako (2015) “Fatherhood in Asian Contexts.” In S. Quah (Ed.), Handbook of Families inAsia. Routledge. pp.161-174.
Ishii-Kuntz, Masako (2013) “Work Environment and Japanese Fathers’ Involvement in Child Care.”
Journal of Family Issues, Vol.34 (2) pp. 250-269.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192513X12462363

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Reproduction
Azumi Tsuge (2015) “Considering the Social Background of Prenatal Tests in Japan,” The Meiji Gakuin
Sociology and Social Welfare Review, 145, pp.137-164,https://meigaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_ite
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Chiaki Shirai (2019) “Genetic Ties and Affinity: Longitudinal Interviews on Two Mothers’ Experiences of
Egg Donation in Japan,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 13 (2): 299-315. 13/2 299-315,https://read.dukeupress.edu/easts/issue/13/2
N. Yamamoto, T. Hirata and et.al (2018) A survey of public attitudes towards third-party reproduction inJapan in 2014, PLOS ONE,https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198499
Genaro Castro-Vázquez (2017) Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan, Routledge, 214 pages
Aya Homei, 2016, “Between the West and Asia: ‘Humanistic’ Japanese Family Planning in the Cold War,”
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, Vol.10(4), pp.445-467.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/easts/article/10/4/445-467/60818
WorkHeidi Gottfried (2017) The Reproductive Bargain: Deciphering the Enigma of Japanese Capitalism(Studies in Critical Social Sciences) Haymarket Books
Osamu Saito (2014)‟Historical Origins of the Male Breadwinner Household Model: Britain, Sweden andJapan“ Japan Labor Review, vol.11(4), pp.5-20.
https://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2014/JLR44_saito.pdf
Akiko Sato Oishi (2019) “Why did Japanese Dual-earner Couples Increase since the Late 1980s?” Japan
Labor Issues, vol.3(13), pp.15-29. https://www.jil.go.jp/english/jli/documents/2019/013-02.pdf
Mao Saito (2017) “Current Issues regarding Family Caregiving and Gender Equality in Japan: Male
Caregivers and the Interplay between Caregiving and Masculinities” Japan Labor Review, vol.14(1),pp.92-111. https://www.jil.go.jp/english/JLR/documents/2017/JLR53_saito.pdf
Politics
Articles in “Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics” section. (2015) Politics & Gender 11(1).
pp.171-217.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/issue/1580677BBA068B9023391254
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Ki-young Shin (2019) “An Alternative Form of Women's Political Representation: Netto, a Proactive
Women's Party in Japan,” Politics&Gender, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X19000606
Mikiko Eto (2016) “‘Gender’ Problems in Japanese Politics: A Dispute over a Socio-Cultural Change
towards Increasing Equality,” Japanese Journal of Political Science 17 (3):365-385,
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1468109916000141

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Education
Educational Studies in Japan. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/esjkyoiku/-char/en(Academic journal on education in Japan, published by Japanese Educational Research Association)
Takehiko Kariya (2014) Education Reform and Social Class in Japan: The Emerging Incentive Divide,
Routledge, 228 pages.
Yuto Kitamura, Toshiyuki Omomo, and Masaaki Katsuno, eds. (2019) Education in Japan: A
Comprehensive Analysis of Education Reforms and Practices, Springer, 241pages.
Susan D. Holloway (2000) Contested Childhood: Diversity and Change in Japanese Preschools, Routledge,272pages.
Hiroko Araki (2017) “Do Childrenʼs Allowances Motivate Them to Study Harder? Empirical Evidence
from Japanese University Students” Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance, Vol. 10 (2017),
7‒21. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jbef/10/0/10_7/_pdf/-char/en
Hiromi Hara and N´uria Rodr´ıguez-Planas (2019) ”Curriculum and Gender Norms: The Effect ofCo-Education of Home Economics” Curriculum and Gender Norms,1-33.
http://www.crepe.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/20190325_hara.pdf
International Migration
Ogawa, Reiko, Chan, Raymond K.H., Oishi, Akiko, Wang, Lih-Rong. (Eds.) (2018) Gender, Care andMigration in East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan
Immigrant Families in Japan
Crockett, L.J., & Russell, S.T. 2013. “Latino Adolescents’ Understanding of Good Parent-Adolescent
Relationships: Common Themes and Subtle Differences”, Chuang & Tamis eds. Gender Roles inImmigrant Families. New York: Springer, pp.81-102.
Genaro Castro-Vázquez 2011, “Jumping out of enclosures: Ethnicity, gender, education and language
among Latin Americans in Japan”, Ethnicities Vo. 11 (2) pp. 218-244.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468796811398835
Tina M. Durand 2011 “Latina Mothers’ Cultural Beliefs About Their Children, Parental Roles, andEducation: Implications for Effective and Empowering Home-School Partnerships” Urban Rev(2011) 43, pp. 255–278. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11256-010-0167-5
Andrea G. González, Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Mayra Y. Bámaca 2006, “Familial Ethnic Socialization
Among Adolescents of Latino and European Descent: Do Latina Mothers Exert the Most Influence?”
Journal of Family Issues, Volume 27 Number 2 pp. 184-207.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0192513X05279987

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