Cooperation over Conflict: The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan (review)

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-227
Author(s):  
Anne E. Imamura
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
The State ◽  
Postwar Japan

scholarly journals “CONVENTIONAL WISDOM” AND THE POLITICS OF SHINTO IN POSTWAR JAPAN

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
John Breen
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The State ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Post War ◽  
Shed Light

In January 2010, the Supreme Court delivered a historic verdict of unconstitutionality in a case involving Sorachibuto, a Shinto shrine in Sunagawa city, Hokkaido. All of the national newspapers featured the case on their front pages. As the case makes abundantly clear, issues of politics and religion, politics and Shinto, are alive and well in 21st century Japan. In this essay, I seek to shed light on the fraught relationship between politics and Shinto from three perspectives. I first analyze the Sorachibuto case, and explain what is at stake, and why it has attracted the attention it has. I then contextualize it, addressing the key state-Shinto legal disputes in the post war period: from the 1970s through to the first decade of the 21st century. Here my main focus falls on the state, and its efforts to cultivate Shinto. In the final section, I shift that focus to the Shinto establishment, and explore its efforts to reestablish with a succession of post LDP administrations the sort of intimacy, which Shinto enjoyed with the state in the early 20th century.

When I Came Home

Gertrude Weil ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Rogoff
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Textile Mills ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
State Organization ◽  
Women's Club Movement

The Women's Club movement became the platform for Weil's social activism. Following her mother and aunt's footsteps as a leader of the Goldsboro Woman's Club, she rose in the hierarchy of the state organization, earning the sobriquet “Federation Gertie.” Eschewing marriage, she bonded with other women and remained loyal to her family while working to expand women's role beyond domesticity. An advocate of municipal housekeeping, she urged the women's movement to advocate for children and women exploited in the textile mills. Increasingly, she saw that reform would not progress without women achieving legal rights and pushed the federation to adopt suffrage resolutions.

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