Intorduction : Theorizing the gendering of the knowledge economy : comparative approaches / Sylvia Walby -- Gender and the conceptualization of the knowledge economy in comparison / Karen Shire -- Comparative livelihood security systems from a gender perspective, with a focus on Japan / Mari...

Women's work in Japan's early industrial age -- Keeping "idle youngsters" out of trouble: the 1929 abolition of night work and the problem of free time -- Cultivation groups and the Japanese factory: producing workers, gendering subjects -- Sex, strikes, and solidarity: Tōyō Muslin and the...

This essay examines the relationship between US policy toward commercialized sex, known as the 'American Plan', and postwar Japan's prohibitionism in the context of changes in the global management of commercialized sex over the course of the 20th century, and reconsiders the meaning of...

From the early Tokugawa period onward, the expression, lsquo;The hen does not announce the morning. The crowing of a hen in the morning indicates the subversion of the family' from the Shujing (Book of Documents) was frequently called upon as a warning. At the height of the Tokugawa period,...