Join Grace and Jess this week in discussing the activist work of Mitsu Tanaka and second wave feminism in Japan 1970s.  Tanaka's work is so prolific, it is difficult to distinguish from the work of Uuman Ribu, the group she was part of.  Tanaka had multiple publications under her name and campaigned for "Liberation from the Toilet" - similar to the Madonna/Whore complex we see in contemporary feminism.  Mitsu still lives in Japan where she practices as an Acupuncturist. Her 'movement' has developed into more intense and more personal one, as she wants to be someone who stands by people, not someone who leads them.

Sources:

Setsu Shigematsu SCream from the Shadows: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan

Chizuko Ueno, (2013)

40 years of feminism in Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SErdVYGTxVI

Vera Mackie, Curtin University of Technology, Perth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470196.007

 (ICU Division of Humanities : Ikoma, Natsumi) Key-note Speech by Ms. Tanaka

conference of the Women's Association of Japan 2004

https://unseenjapan.com/tanaka-mitsu-feminist-japan/

Wikipedia

http://countrystudies.us/japan/73.htm

https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-194?__prclt=5rDrr6A8

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/27/magazine/changing-face-of-japan.html