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General Japanese Womens Rights Tags (that are the most active)

#kutoo (movement to ban mandatory heel wearing in offices for women) @Ishikawa_yumi started the movement

#hervoicejp #女声を聞け (same tag in Japanese)

#withyellow (women who keep girls from being molested by accompanying them during entrance exams)

#痴漢許さぬ漢の会 (molesters are not allowed in our society)

#大丈夫ですかプロジェット　(are you okay? Project, reaching out to victims of sexual assault)

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Translates Feminist Issues to English

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@ishikawa_sachi

@unseenjapansite

#ishikawa yumi #yumi ishikawa #kutoo #withyellow #hervoicejp #女声を聞け #japan #history #japanese #japanese history #japanese feminism #japanese womens history #feminism #japanese women #feminist history #womens history #herstory #historical feminism #japanese fashion #sexual assault

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On this day, 25 January 1911 Kanno Sugako, a Japanese anarchist feminist, was executed for her part in a plot to assassinate the Emperor. She remains the only woman to be executed in Japan for treason. Radicalised at the age of 14 after being raped, she was one of Japan’s first female journalists and advocates of women’s rights, as well as a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction. She was inspired by Sophia Perovskaya, who helped assassinate the Russian Tsar. This is her brief prison diary written while awaiting execution: http://bit.ly/2po10Uc http://bit.ly/2DAAaOh

#anarchist #anarchy #radfem #japan #history #japanese #japanese history #kanno sugako #sugako kanno

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On October 23, 1915, twenty-thousand suffragists marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City demanding the right to vote.

In the photo there is Komako Kimura (1887-1980), a prominent Japanese suffragist, who arrived from Japan to help out her sisters in America and joined in the parade.

Kimura came from a traditional Japanese family, who had arranged a marriage for her when she was 14 years old to a man she had never seen. Like many women in Japan during that time, she was expected to obey the traditional customs. She was expected to be obedient, she was expected to follow the same traditions that generations of her forebears had followed before her.

But, on the way to the marriage ceremony, Kimura had other thoughts. She would slip out of the carriage and go into hiding. She sold her wedding finery and bought a ticket to another city. There, she would make a name for herself as a dancer.

She then again defied Japanese convention by eloping with a young doctor. She would become a writer, publishing a novel, then edited a woman's magazine in Tokyo, called Shin Shin Fujin, the first publication in Japan of its kind asserting women's rights. It would be so controversial that the magazine would be suppressed.

The conservative government of Japan then started watching her and would refuse her to hold suffrage meetings in the streets of Tokyo.

She would also become a well-known actress in her country who would take on daring roles. Again, the government would step in, telling her that she needed to stick with nice and mild roles befitting of women at that time.

She responded to that edict by opening her theater to the public without fee. She would be arrested and put on trial. The government, however, never knew what they were truly dealing with: Kimura would defend herself, providing arguments that were so well thought out that her trial would receive much publicity. Because of her, the word "suffrage", previously unspoken before in Japan, would be carried into the remotest districts of the empire.

#komako kimira #japanese suffrage #womens sufferage

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Japanese Women on Twitter: We do not like being treated like shit or being objectified and face terrible sexism every day

Mixed Race Japanese People: *translate these messages directly from Japanese women so everyone can understand*

Western Men: Wow stop trying to force your culture on Japan. Women love being treated like shit there I saw it on anime.

#this really happens and i have thousands of reciepts dont even get me started #news flash: women everywhere do not like sexism #men are exhausting #Japan #japanese women #japanese girls #anime #otaku #otakuboy #weeb culture #weeb #japanese feminism #kutoo #男はゴミ #フェミニスト #womens history #radical feminism #feminism #womens rights #japanese american #japanese history #japanese culture #白人 #黒人種 #radfem #libfem #womens liberation

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“Dusting off the Male Gaze” by Yuko Shimizu for Chronicle of Higher Education. Published in their Women and Power in the Academy issue where multiple artists were asked to illustrate their tales on #metoo.

#japan #history #japanese #art #kimono #japanese history #japanese feminism #metoo #kutoo #japanese womens history #feminism #japanese women #male gaze

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Mana Hamada - a Japanese model known in the Tokyo fashion scene for speaking openly about being an out lesbian/LGBT supporter - on the street in Shibuya this weekend.

#Harajuku #Japanese Fashion #Japanese Streetwear #LGBT #lesbian pride #wow #YUM #Wlw #mana hamada #amazing #japanese lesbian

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Famous Japanese Feminist Authors. Left Yoshiko Yusa who was a famous russian/japanese translater and right her long term partner, another feminist author Toshiko Tamura.

#japan #history #japanese #japanese history #japanese feminism #japanese womens history #feminism #japanese women #yoshiko yusa #toshiko #toshiko tamura #gnc lesbian history #gnc woman #lgbt history #taisho #showa #showa fashion #showa period #russian #translator #feminist history #womens rights #women authors #female authors

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#taisho #1920s style #1920s fashion #wlw #art #japanese american #japanese art #kimono #japan #history #japanese #japanese history #japanese feminism #japanese womens history #feminism #japanese women

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#lesbian art #sapphic art #badass women of ukiyo e #ukiyo e #japanese #japan #history #kimono #japanese history

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Seito women at a new years party in 1913

The Seito magazines would later become a cornerstone of Japanese Feminism as it covered female-exclusive experiences and voices.

#japan #history #japanese #japanese history #japanese feminism #japanese womens history #feminism #japanese women #feminist history #1910s fashion #1910s #taisho #showa #japanese girl #art #women authors #female authors

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First issue of Seito in 1911, which became an integral part of the Japanese Women’s Rights Movement.

“The magazine’s name, Seitō, translated to “Bluestockings,” a nod to an unorthodox group of 18th-century English women who gathered to discuss politics and art, which was an extraordinary activity for their time.

But Seitō was not intended to be a radical or political publication. “We did not launch the journal to awaken the social consciousness of women or to contribute to the feminist movement,” wrote the magazine’s founder, Haruko Hiratsuka, who went by the penname Raichō, or “Thunderbird.” “Our only special achievement was creating a literary journal that was solely for women.” Raichō was most interested in self-discovery—“to plumb the depths of my being and realize my true self,” she wrote—and much of the writing in the magazine was confessional and personal, a 1910s version of the essays that might now be found in or Catapult.

Women’s feelings and inner thoughts, however, turned out to be a provocative challenge to the social and legal strictures of this era, when a woman’s role was to be a good wife and mother. The Seitō women imagined much wider and wilder emotional and professional lives for themselves. They fell in love, they indulged in alcohol, they built careers as writers, and they wrote about it all—publicly. The stories were radical enough that the government censored them. The story that prompted policemen to visit the magazine’s office late at night was a piece of fiction about a married women writing to her lover to ask him to meet her while her husband was away.

As they attracted public attention and disapproval, instead of shying away from the controversy they’d created, the editors of Seitō were forced to confront more baldly political questions, and this in turn earned them more banned issues. In the pages of their magazine they came to debate women’s equality, chastity, and abortion. Without originally intending to, they became some of Japan’s pioneering feminists.”

-Excerpt from HERE documenting women’s history in Japan

#japanese womens history #womens history #women authors #female authors #japan #history #japanese #japanese history #japanese feminism #feminism #japanese women #womens rights #seito #taisho #showa period #womens liberation #wlw

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Yoshiya Nobuko

This is Yoshiya Nobuko

She was a feminist writer in Meiji and Postwar Japan. She wrote for a female audience, with characters meant for a female audience, and encouraged female independence and escape from traditional female roles in society. Many of her characters were lesbian or lesbian-coded. 

She fell in love with another woman, a math teacher named Monma Chiyo, and tried to marry her. When it became clear that she couldn’t do that, did she stop?

Not a chance.

Instead, she said, ‘well, what if I built a new house in my family’s name, declared it a branch household in the family register, moved there, making me the only member of this branch of the family, declared myself bereft of heirs, then legally adopted Chiyo so the government would have to recognize us as one household, then threw a party to celebrate the adoption and the two of us just happen to show up in wedding kimonos, is that illegal? That’s right, it’s not.”

Source: Walthall, Anne. The Human Tradition in Modern Japan. Wilmington, DE: SR, 2002. Print.

#wlw #vintage lesbians #Yoshiya nobuko #monma chiyo #lesbians #japan #history #historical lesbians

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Yoshiya Nobuko writing to her lover Monma Chiyo

#yoshiya nobuko #monma chiyo #quote #writer #japanese #feminist #wlw #lesbians #lesbian #japanese history #japanese lesbian

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Nobuku Yoshia’s Stories on Forbidden Lesbian Love Started Shoujou Manga Genre

A prominent lesbian writer in the Taisho and Showa era, she is most famous for books like “Husbands are Useless” and “Virgins in the attic” she began using motifs that would later make women the prominent shoujou manga writers as they could imagine themselves in these positions.

#nobuku yoshia #japan #history #japanese #art #kimono #japanese history #japanese feminism #japanese womens history #feminism #japanese women #wlw #lgbt #japanese lesbian

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I need Tumblr to realize you can be supportive of something and also critical of it at the same time. Support isn’t horse blinders, it’s insuring the goal gets met while taking out things that compromise the idea.

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Nomiya Maki 野宮 真貴 & Towa Tei 東和 鄭 modelling for Pizzicato Five / Romantique 96 album - Japan - 1995