Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire

Tatsuya Kageki is a research associate in the faculty of economics of Keio University. His research focused on developing the history of social thought in modern Japan and East Asia. Jiajia Yang is an assistant professor in the Research Center for Japanese Language Education and Department of Japanese Language & Literature, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Xiamen University. She majors in modern Japanese literature, and comparative literature and culture of Japan and China.

Introduction Part 1. The Ideal of Women Delivered by the Empire 1. The Japanese Women’s Journals in Colonial Taiwan: The Patriotic Taiwan’s Women and Taiwanese Women’s World 2. Expressing independence in the midst of collaboration: Female roles in the women’s magazine Qi Lin of Manchukuo 3. "Wise Wives and Good Mothers": Disobedience in Disguise under the Collaborationist Regime in Guangzhou (1940–1945) Part 2. Women Traveling in and Writing on Asia 4. The West, Asia, and Women in Rha Hye-seok’s Travels 5. A Japanese women’s exploration of semi-colonized China: The case of Hayashi Fumiko 's Traveling writing around 1930 6. Women’s "language/translation" community in Japan/Korea: Hayashi Fumiko as Japanese imperial novelist Part 3. Seeking "Imperial Women" in Colonial Asia 7. Japanese Women in Colonial Taiwan in the 1930s: Their Identity Formation Under the Influence of Japanese Imperialism by analyzing Taiwan Fujinkai 8. An Anarchist Woman’s ideological conversion: How Mochizuki Yuriko Became a Nationalist in Manchuria 9. Statements of "Nanshin Josei" in the 1940s: The Discrepancy between the Representation of "Nanshin Josei" and Their Narratives Part 4. The Periphery of Empire 10. Population Movements of Migrant Okinawan Women during the Development of the Empire: Women’s migration from Okinawa to the South Sea Islands 11. Population Movements of Migrant Okinawan Women during the Collapse of the Empire: Wartime Repatriation and Okinawan Women in the South Sea Islands