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A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the most explosive, round in a struggle over the legitimacy of different \"narrator's\" understandings of the past and its focus on the \"comfort women\" issue. Feminist theorist Chizuko Ueno confronts head on, in her usual lucid and hard-hitting style, the various actors in the debate. She skillfully cuts through the argument of the neo-nationalist \"historical revisionists\" who have attempted to deny or minimize the reality of the former \"comfort women\". Ueno's equally biting treatment of her natural allies - left-wing historians and feminist supporters of the \"comfort women\" - has also made the book highly controversial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+++\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUENO Chizuko is a leading Japanese feminist scholar and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Her areas of specialization include gender theory, women’s studies and family sociology. After graduating from the Graduate School of Kyoto University, she served as Associate Professor at Heian Jogakuin Junior College, Visiting Researcher at the University of Chicago and Associate Professor at Kyoto Seika University. Her overseas appointments include Visiting Professor at the University of Bonn and at the University of Mexico. She became Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, in 1993, and then Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, in 1995. In recent years, she has been involved in research on aged care\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+++\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslator’s Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor’s Introduction to the English Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart I – Engendering the Nation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMethodological Issues\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParadigm Change in Post-War History \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParadigm Change in Women’s History \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Nationalism of Women and Wartime Mobilisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Feminist Response \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Feminist Version of “Conquering the Modern”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFemale Socialist or Socialist Feminist? The Case of Yamakawa Kikue\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe War Responsibility of Ordinary Women \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Dilemma of the Nation-State’s Gender Strategy \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Paradox of this Gender Strategy \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWomen and the Issue of Conversion \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIdeas Capable of Transcending the State \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Critique of the Reflexive School of Women’s History \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGoing Beyond the “Nationalism of Women” Paradigm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan 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In Japan these traditions have survived into the twenty-first century and remain a deeply rooted part of the national psyche. It was in such a hostile environment that two men, in defiance of the prevailing social norms, saw fit to take a stand and declare that they were different from the mainstream, different from all the imagery they had ever been exposed to, and not orientated to fit the rigid, positively sanctioned mould presented to them by society. This book gives a human focus to the nascent struggle for social acceptance and dignity being waged by homosexuals in Japan. It describes the authors' coming out to society and their subsequent appeals, on both a personal and public level, for the acceptance of homosexuality by the wider society. It is a highly personal account of the authors' experiences - their fears, despair, self-loathing and rejection, aspirations, traumas and triumphs.\n\u003cp\u003e+++\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYANASE Ryoya\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYANASE Ryoya was born in 1962. After dropping out of junior college, he tried his hand at various occupations including as a carpenter. In the book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo Men Living Together\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1993), he and his partner ITO Satoru publicly declared their homosexuality. He established the NPO “Sukotan Project” in 1994 to support the lives of members of the LGBT community in Japan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eITO Satoru\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eITO Satoru is Instructor of Art and Design at Tohoku University and Chiba Prefecture Human Rights Awareness Raising Center. 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