Japanese Women Working - Softcover

"Dr. Hunter's introduction to this fascinating collection of papers provides an excellent overview of the history and development of women's issues since the Meiji Restoration, and also puts them in an international context. This book is . . . part of the response in the West to the need for material in English to be available so that Japan can be included in comparative studies of history, economics, gender studies, etc. Japan is too important a world player not to appear in these studies, but the necessary material has until recently been inaccessible to all but a few specialist Western researchers. This book is one of those designed to fill the gap and it does so very successfully." -Lydia Gomersall, "Proceedings of The Japan Society

An international group of historians, economists, anthropologists and management specialists examine policy towards women workers and their experinces over the course of this century in Japan.