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Historical Status of Women in Japan, 2005.
A look at the evolving status of women in Japan from 1200 B.C. to modern times with the Meiji Restoration.
2,750 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 82.95
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This paper demonstrates that women in Japan have not always been the fragile and submissive figures that they are thought to be. In the early days, BC and quite far into AD, Japanese women were powerful priestesses, representations of gods, and heads of households that assumed their husbands' responsibilities upon their deaths. This paper shows that it was not until the period of Tokugawa rule that women's role in society most closely resembled that of the current stereotype.
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"Unfortunately, the political decline in female leadership was followed by a spiritual decline. From the late Nara period onward into the new eras of development, the belief systems of Buddhism and Confucianism increased in their popularity among both Japanese leaders and common people. These new faiths were able to peacefully coexist with the native faith of Shintoism. However, minor changes caused these new beliefs to subtly rival Shintoism (Beard 5). Buddhist shrines were constructed alongside Shinto shrines, and male Buddhist priests gained influence in the community (Beard 11). While the Japanese people were still loyal to their kamis and Amaterasu, these great female figures were no longer the only spiritual presences in society. As they became more commonplace amongst the landscape of religious figures, these female figures lost some of their societal authority."
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Women in Korea and Japan: A Comparison., 2002.
A comparison of the changing status of women in Korea and Japan.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 89.95
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This essay discusses how both Korean and Japanese women have suffered from gender inequality in their societies. In recent years, there have been efforts in both societies to improve the status of women. The evidence suggests that while Korean women have also been the victims of oppression and exploitation, their counterparts in Japan have fared worse.
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Women in Tokugawa, Japan, 2002.
Provides textual evidence of the position of women in Tokugawa Japan.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper examines the position, status and roles of women in Tokugawa Japan. The analysis is based on contemporary texts that reveal that in light of the dominance of the Neo-Confucian ethic, women filled more varied roles and, potentially, exercised more influence than is commonly thought.
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Role of Women in Modern Japan, 2002.
The paper analyzes the remarkable progress Japanese women have made in asserting their rights over the last century.
4,095 words (approx. 16.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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The paper examines Japan's change in foreign policy and resulting economic growth in the second half of the 20th Century, which allowed women to enter the workforce. The paper also looks at the social changes in marriage and family life that resulted from the women's employment. It also discusses the emerging Japanese women's liberation movement called "wuman ribu" and its attempts to raise social consciousness in Japan. The paper notes the differences in attitude between Western and Japanese cultures and the fact that Japan still has a long way to go before it achieves sexual equality, especially in the workplace.
Table of Contents
Modern Japan - How is it different?
What Women Gained
Women's Movement In Japan
Women In Economy
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"Women in Japan in the past 50 years have made a huge progress as far as their presence in the workplace is concerned. We have seen that most women in the past few decades decided to pursue a career instead of staying at home and raising children. While this has resulted in tremendous economic benefits for women, it has also affected their personal lives, which is the reason why most of them are facing a major dilemma today. They are not certain if they should continue being a part of the workforce or is it better to stay at home and do justice to their traditional roles. But women in Japan still complain of discrimination and inequality in the workplace. Sometimes it is about promotion that they deserved but did not get, at others it can be about the pay scale, which often tilts in favor of their male counterparts."
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The Role of Women in Japan's Development, 2000.
A look at Japanese women throughout Japanese history and their role and function, as compared to modern day Japan.
1,820 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 8 sources, $ 58.95
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This paper looks at women's role in Japan's modern era development. Their presence and influence is shown by looking outside the events of conventional historical record. The powerful political influence of ruling class women in ancient Japanese society is looked at. The Edo period is seen as the era that forced women to be subordinate and the influence of the West the factor which began to open Japanese women to participation in social spheres once more.
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"Studies of Japan?s modern era development emphasize its industry, bureaucracy and military, focusing on the political, merchant and capitalist elite and ignoring those upon whom the major costs of development was imposed, particularly women. Japan?s modernization came at a social cost borne by the poor, the disadvantaged and women (Hane, 1982). Although their contribution has typically been marginalized, women contributed significantly to the development process in many ways.
Japanese women had an essential role in the domestic sphere and in the economy, but their influence and contributions did not move them toward sexual and legal equality, as was the case for women in the west. This was primarily due to the social and legal conservative imperatives relegating women to the lowest status of every class strata; however, their presence and influence may be seen by taking a larger, and peripheral, view outside the events of conventional historical record."
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Women in Tokugawa Japan, 2006.
A discussion regarding the reality of Japanese women within and beyond the walls in Tokugawa.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper refers to 'The Life of an Amorous Woman' and other Tokugawa period literature to explain the different roles played by women in a rigid 18th century society led by the samurai class, rigid conformity, and subservience of women respectability in contrast with prevalence of different forms of prostitution. According to this paper, women were held to hold dangerous ulterior powers and thus their lives needed to be ordered to fit with respectability, including respectable and less respectable forms of prostitution.
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"Introduction Twenty-first century Western ideas of women and the freedom of the individual do collide with the very limited choices and frequent low status of women in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1867). This essay refers to literature in commenting on the Tokugawa courtesan or prostitute, in relation to her sister in more respectable society, towards a conclusion arguing that women's roles were prescribed, however varied, and their legacy may continue still in a much changed Japanese society. Elizabeth Kanematsu explains how women were stripped of their rights in the Tokugawa period and became subservient to men until the advent of the Meiji Era. (1993)."
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Japan's ?Comfort Women?.
This paper argues the need for Japan to assume responsibility, both morally and legally, for the use of the ?comfort women?, sex slaves in a systematic, planned system ordered and executed by the Japanese government during World War II.
2,020 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper explains that, until recently, the Japanese government has been able to deny responsibility for the part it played in the atrocities committed against the 'comfort women'. This denial of responsibility has had a huge impact, not only on the victims, but also on the collective community of Japan. The author points out that the Japanese government denied its responsibility for playing any part in the organized sex slavery. However, in the early 1990s, with the first lawsuit filed against the Japanese government and the surfacing of documents that directly implicated military officials in the organized prostitution of comfort women, the Japanese government had no choice but to take a new stance on the previous denial of responsibility for these crimes, recognize the moral responsibility for these crimes, and apologize for them. The paper stresses that legal responsibility is also necessary because Japan has made no reparations to the victims, no acknowledgment of legal liability, and has undertaken no prosecutions against the war criminals who committed these crimes.
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"The term ?comfort women? was the official name given by the Japanese Imperial Army to the military?s organization of forced prostitution across the Japanese Empire from 1931 to 1945. An estimated 200,000 women were recruited by force, coercion, or deception into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army in order to satisfy their sexual needs during the period of World War II. Women were taken from their homes in Korea, China, the Dutch East Indies, Taiwan, Malaysia, Burma and the Philippines and were sent to locations throughout Japanese occupied Asia where they were imprisoned in facilities know as ?comfort houses?. In these 'comfort houses', they were raped daily by soldiers, forced to endure torture and abuse and even murdered. By the end of the war approximately 25% of these women had died. Those who did survive were scarred both physically and psychologically for life."
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Japan's New Woman, 2006.
This paper explores the recent trend of Japanese women who flock to Hong Kong for more desirable employment opportunities, better pay and an improved quality of life.
1,968 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines the escalating influx of Japanese women who move to Hong Kong seeking not only better pay but also an escape from the so-called glass ceiling at home as well as a new lifestyle. The desire to work in Hong Kong began in the early 1990s when Japan's economic slowdown began and countless women found themselves unemployed. This paper discusses the traditional female roles in Japanese culture and the numerous strides women have made over the years in a male dominated society.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Japanese Women and Their Environment
Japanese Women and Their Traditional Roles
Inequality in Japanese Society: Tradition
Inequality in Japanese Society: Today
Footnotes
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"Working in Hong Kong is also a way out for women frustrated by Japan's notorious male-dominated corporate culture. "Japanese women who have studied abroad and achieved a command of English hope to use it in their careers, but they find that overwhelmingly Japanese companies only give foreign postings to male employees," Nakase said. Japanese job seekers with work experience and basic clerical skills find strong demand from Japanese firms that seek to save money by hiring locally and which find Japanese workers easier to communicate with than local Hong Kong staff. Jobs on offer are typically clerical, with more challenging opportunities -- and better pay -- offered to those with good computer skills or command of English or Chinese."
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Ascribed Status vs. Achieved Status, 2006.
This paper analyzes how one's initial impression and perception of fellow human beings impact and determine our expectations of these individuals.
2,428 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This insightful and well-researched paper examines how one's impression of an individual's social class molds the way in which we interact with that particular individual. This paper focuses on how the initial impressions of our fellow human beings can impact and even determine our expectations of other individuals. From a small number of visual and audio clues, we can guess at whether an individual is successful or not. These same clues tell us whether that particular person is worthy of respect, or revulsion. The writer of this paper details how the status of people, organizations, places and ideas differs depending upon the context. One group may possess a generally negative status, while others may present a negative status only in relation to certain others. This paper also explores the impact of the media on our perception of others. Newspapers and television stations are always bombarding the viewer with images of crime and criminals. They like to show photographs of the alleged victim dressed neatly in a suit and tie, or wearing the robes of an altar boy. Much stronger than these examples of individual cases of a person's status or condition, are those in which the media stereotypes a whole group of people. This paper also discusses how ethnic and minority groups are lumped together in such an easily recognized fashion.
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"Among the other discoveries of this look at "status," was the uncovering of a still-more insidious method of reporting events. In many of the pieces at which we looked, the "judgment" that the reader is invited to make is conceived of as something that happens almost automatically. For example, Mayor Daley's defense of vocational schools does not, in reality, contain anything positive or negative about such a school. Instead, it is the mere offering of the comment that is significant. People have a certain idea about "vocational schools," and the Mayor, as well the Tribune's readers are fully cognizant of the nature of that point-of-view. A more positive way of handling the story might have been for the article to have listed all that the vocational schools would do, rather than introducing at once the idea that "You'll live with it!" Too many times, even the most objective people let slip small comments or phrases that indicate a prejudice one way or the other. Particular words become "code words."
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Equality in Japan and China, 2008.
This paper discusses the influence of western civilization on the social status of women in Japan and China.
2,786 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the role of women in Japan and China has undergone a significant change due to the profound influence of Western culture in these Asian countries. This paper examines the history of the social status of both Japanese and Chinese women, and looks at how that status has changed and evolved over the years as the West has imposed its values on both countries' citizens. The writer argues that Japanese and Chinese women have experienced both positive and negative outcomes in social equality due to the impact of Western civilization on these two Eastern powers, however, the positives far outweigh the negatives.
Outline:
Introduction
Japanese Women prior to World War II
Post World War II Japanese Women
Chinese women and their status after the influence of Western culture
The Social Equality of Japanese and Chinese Women
Negative social outcomes due to Western influence
Japan
China
Refuting the Negative Social Outcomes Due to Western Influence
Conclusion
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"Overall, women in Japan and China today experience much more social equality than their mothers and grandmothers ever did. Each great Eastern power was under the influence of Confucius and the old customs that made women subservient to their husbands, and even to their eldest sons.
"Since Western standards of gender equality have encroached the East, women in both Japan and China have had a much greater opportunity for education. This is evident in the sharply increased female enrollment at the university level in both powers."
"The glass ceiling for women not only exists for women in Japan and China, but also is still an issue in the United States. Nonetheless, there are increased opportunities within the work place due to higher academic achievement among Japanese and Chinese women. Women are now in government offices in both powers and greater opportunities will no doubt abound in time."
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Women in the Meiji and Taisho Periods in Japan, 2004.
Looks at the greater degree of freedom Japanese women had during the Meiji and Taisho periods in Japan.
1,033 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper is about the increase in freedom Japanese women experienced during the Meiji and Taisho periods in Japan and the subsequently greater role they had in both the family and the political life of the country. The paper explains how, unwittingly, the Samurai revolution contributed to women's greater liberation and how the combination of increased urbanization along with a higher degree of mobility tended to loosen the traditional strictures on women?s physical and social mobility. The paper also points out how the increase in a Japanese middle-class after the Samurai revolution and their corresponding demands for more rights also contributed to greater freedoms for women. The paper makes it clear, however, that the status of Japanese women during this period was never close to being equal to that of Japanese men, but their social and political gains were significant.
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"The Meiji period, as Gordon outlines in Chapter Five, ?The Samurai Revolution?, began with a political revolution that returned the country to direct imperial rule under the Emperor Meiji and brought to an end the era of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The emperor took advantage of the restoration of his power to try to push Japan towards the West and to introduce Western concepts of modernization. The effect ? over the period of Meiji rule from 1868?1912 included the rise of a much larger and more powerful middle class in Japan. This came about in no small way because the samurai who lead the restoration understood that their own rising power ? as well as that of the imperial house ? was dependent upon the diminishment of power by the feudal lords."
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Japan and Great Power Status, 2008.
A discussion on whether Japan could be considered a great power in 1905.
992 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses how, following the Russo-Japanese War, in which Japan triumphed for the first time over a traditional great power, the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905 formally recognised Japan as a truly global player. It examines how secure Japan's power was at this time and concludes that beneath the proud exterior of Japan's military prowess lay the crippling financial costs of the war with Russia which had brought her, unbeknown to her population, to her knees.
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"What tilted the balance, preparing more immediately the road to 1905, was arguably the Boxer rebellion. From the outset Britain, whose hands were already tied with insurrection in southern Africa, looked towards Japan to send around 30,000 troops to help quell Chinese unrest. Despite reservations from Russia and Germany, Japan was eventually convinced to come on board to fight alongside European armies who could, for the first time, appreciate the professionalism of the Japanese military. But 1899 should not be seen as the alternative date when Japan came to be accepted as a great power not least because she was still, even at this stage, considered a subordinate partner. Revealingly, even though Lieutenant General Yamaguchi headed the largest number of soldiers and was the most senior in terms of rank, these facts did not prevent the alliance from handing command to Count Waldersee who was still in Europe when the appointment was made, all of which provides an indication of the junior status that was accorded to Japan at this time. "
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Japanese Women and Leisure, 2002.
A paper which introduces and discusses leisure time for women in Japan.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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The paper shows that while women in Japan have made great strides during the 20th century, they still have a long way to go to catch up to the world?s women in pay, job prospects and their standing in society. The paper discusses the many hours Japanese women spend on childcare and housework which leaves little time for leisure time and entertainment.
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"Leisure time for women in Japan is much more common today than it was several decades ago. In fact, women taking classes, or enjoying golf and other recreation would have been looked at with disapproval, people would have thought they were neglecting their duties to pursue selfish pleasures. Today, they enjoy more freedom, but as in many other societies, working women with families still enjoy the least leisure time, and in Japan, their husband help even less with the necessary housework. Japanese women still have a long way to go to become equal in their society."
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Feminism in Japan, 2003.
A discussion on the women's movement in Japan.
3,450 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 119.95
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This paper uses maternalism as a theoretical lens and discusses the women's movement in Japan since 1945. The author examine the Japanese construction of the woman's role as an idealized mother. It explores Japanese feminism and feminist practices. The paper includes research on issues involved in the feminist movement and the empowerment of women.
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"According to Khor, to fully understand, Japanese feminism requires an extensive collaborative and coordinated research and active engagement with the myriad and at times contradictory voices and activities in the various sites of ..."
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Japanese Culture and Women, 2005.
Shows how Terry Kawashima argues that women in medieval Japan were marginalized by men in power.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper discusses Terry Kawashima's argument that women in medieval Japan were marginalized by the Buddhist monks and men in power. It uses the example of poet Ono no Komachi and the changing views of her story to compare and contrast this theory with 3 other slightly different ideas.
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"This paper outlines Terry Kawashima's theory of discursive marginalization of women with regard to the female poet Ono no Komachi. It compares her argument with the ways that Sarah M Strong B Faure and Michael Marra explicate the relationship of the ..."
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