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Abstract / Summary

The Woman's Suffrage League in Japan began publishing a bimonthly journal, Japanese Women, in 1938. The president of the league, Ichikawa Fusae (also, Fusaye), served as the journal's editor-in-chief. The journal published sixteen issues, six per year in 1938 and 1939, and four in 1940, before ceasing publication in July 1940. The first issue was 6 pages in length and subsequent issues were four pages long. During the late 1930s, Japan's expansionism in Asia eroded trust, friendship and cooperation. The league envisioned the journal as a means to maintain unity with feminists throughout the world. In the introductory essay of the first issue, Ichikawa explicitly expressed that goal. She identified as fellow feminists as "co-workers" in a time of war, which she described as "chaotic days" and a "reactionary period." Most issues contained a "News in Brief" column and a "Chronicle" of the past months’ events as they affected women. Of note, these features show that a remarkable number of Japanese women continued to attend meetings abroad and foreign women leaders continued to travel to meetings in Japan despite international tensions during these troubled years.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Corporate Author

Woman's Suffrage League of Japan

Content Type

Periodical issue

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Format

Text

Page Count

4

Publication Year

1940

Publisher

Woman's Suffrage League of Japan

Place Published / Released

Tokyo Metropolis

Series Number

Vol. 3, No. 3, May 1940

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Politics, Japón, Japão, China, Japan, Political and Human Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights, Chinese, Japanese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Topic

Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights

Series / Program

Japanese Women

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Japón, Japão