JICPAS issues an English-language magazine "Review of Japanese Culture and Society" offering an international analysis of Japanese people and culture. This magazine is published with a view to enhance international recognition of Japanese culture and its society as well as to stimulate mutual understanding and study the methods of cultural theory.

Foreword

Mizuta Noriko i

Introduction: We Come Together as We Speak Out? Deconstructing Sexism in Culture and in Social Institutions

Wachi Yasuko iii

Keynote Speech: On the History of Asian Women Exchanges

Yamazaki Tomoko 1

Round-Table Discussion: Asian Women Change Their Culture and Society

Yagi Kimiko (Chair)

Panelists: Mizuta Noriko, Wachi Yasuko, Xue Keqiao, Zhang Yulan 9

Women and Culture

Nukata no Okimi: A Bright Star in the History of Waka? The Poems and the Poet

Lu Li 15

Chinese Women's Literature Since 1955

Xu Kun 23

Japanese Film and Women: The Works of Mizoguchi Kenji and Naruse Mikio

Kamimura Masao 28

Women Disguised as Men: Longing for the Past in Chinese Cinema

Xue Keqiao 33

The Polarized World at the End of Fascism: An Examination of Hirabayashi Taeko's Blind Chinese Soldiers

Kora Rumiko 37

Women and Society
Migration of Labor Force from Rural Areas and Women in China

Tian He 41

Women's Working in Postwar Japan: The M-Pattern and the Gender Differentiation of Occupations and Labor Markets

Ushijima Chihiro 47

Reform and Liberalization Policies and the Reemployment of Urban Female Labor

Chen Hui 57

Female Education: A Comparative Study of India and China

Wang Xiaodan 63

Working Women and Child-Rearing in the Village

Uozumi Akiyo 70

Fiction:
The Cricket Girl

Ozaki Midori 78