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.

Introduction

Lisa Bloom i

PartⅠ: International Symposium on 'Gender, technology, and "Development"

Josai International University, Japan, 3, October, 1997.

Analyzing Women in the Politics of the Third World

Georgina Waylen 1

Women and Healthcare: A Critique of USAID Policies in India

Suresht R. Bald 15

Swabalaman Bikas or Self-Reliant Development: Nepalese Women Activists in Development Today

Wachi Yasuko 21

Gender, Popular Science and National Geographic in the Age of Multiculturalism

Lisa Bloom 36

Gender and Development: An Observer's Reflections on the JIU Symposium

Ibrahim M. Samater 46

Part Ⅱ: Japanese Feminism's Relationship to National, Racial, and Colonial Concerns

Beyond Our Invisibility? Diverse Feminisms and the Quest of Japanese Women for Self-defined Identity

Hotta Midori 66

‘Reproductive Rights/ Health' and Japanese Feminism

Ueno Chizuko 79

Fiction:
Happy Birthday

Tomioka Taeko 93