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Research links...

The books used in our research are listed in the bibliography of Women in Reiki.
Below are links to various websites that helped with our research as an addition to those books

Part I

Biographies

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Women educators  and the confucian tradition in Meiji Japan, by Margaret Mehl in Women’s History review

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09612020100200302

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History of Soka Gakkai

https://www.sokaglobal.org/about-the-soka-gakkai/our-history.html

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Korea as a colony of Japan

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/kpct/kp_koreaimperialism.htm

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Air raids in Tokyo during World War II

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/07/asia/japan-tokyo-fire-raids-operation-meetinghouse-intl-hnk/index.html

 

The Meiji Reforms and Obstacles for Women, Japan 1878-1927

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/WR-04.html

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Garon, Sheldon. “Women's Groups and the Japanese State: Contending Approaches to Political Integration, 1890-1945.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1993, pp. 5–41. JSTOR

www.jstor.org/stable/132863

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Yamamoto and the Planning for Pearl Harbor, by Mark Stille

http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/yamamoto-planning-pearl-harbor/

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About Emperor Hirohito’s 1945 surrender speech

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/the-emperors-speech-67-years-ago-hirohito-transformed-japan-forever/261166/

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About the "Honourable death of a hundred million"

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/01/magazine/l-pearl-harbor-in-the-mind-of-japan-646191.html

(subscription to NYT needed)

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History of Northeast China’s railway

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000575/the-100-year-history-of-northeast-chinas-frontier-railway

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About the American occupation in Japan

http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/article/3688/

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Soviet declaration of war on Japan

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/s4.asp

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Taisho Democracy in Japan (1912-1926)

https://www.facinghistory.org/nanjing-atrocities/nation-building/taisho-democracy-japan-1912-1926

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Pictures of Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake

https://asienspiegel.ch/2020/09/der-tag-an-dem-tokio-unterging?fbclid=IwAR0fzdTouJPWsZJfEEttL1bQANDpQ1Fn6yhzoaVpClGk3T6CHXsfhIN2G8E

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The US-Japan security alliance

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-japan-security-alliance

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1931 Book excerpt about Manchurian Railway

https://books.google.de/books?id=4-EDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA210&dq=Popular+Mechanics+1931+curtiss&hl=en&ei=cLsATbqFMZTjnQf3tNzlDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Popular%20Mechanics%201931%20curtiss&f=true

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Feminism in Japan by Barbara Molony. Subject: Gender, Japan Online Publication    - Date: Jan 2018 DOI:

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

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Hanae Kurihara Kramer, Fleeing Defeat: The Japanese exodus from Manchuria, The Journal of Northeast Asian History, Volume 9 Number 1, p. 31-65, 2012

https://uzay.tubitak.gov.tr/sites/images/uzay/06_introduction_of_harbin.pdf

http://contents.nahf.or.kr/japanese/item/downloadItemFile.process?fileName=jn_015_0020.pdf&levelId=jn_015e_0020

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Escape from Manchuria chronicles

http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2011/8/16/escape-from-manchuria/

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The United States and the Opening to Japan, 1853

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/opening-to-japan

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Fan, Carol C. “Asian Women in Hawai'i: Migration, Family, Work, and Identity.” NWSA Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 1996, pp. 70–84. JSTOR. Accessed 5 Feb. 2020.

www.jstor.org/stable/4316424

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Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii by Yukiko Kimura, University of Hawaii Press, 1992

https://books.google.de/books?id=4uQH2sIllDgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Yukiko+Kimura%22&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT9IK0kcTvAhVFmqQKHaiYDc8Q6AEwAHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

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The Japanese in Hawaii: A historical and demographic perspective, Eleanor C. Nordyke and Y. Scott Matsumoto

https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/528/2/JL11174.pdf

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Martial Law in Hawaii

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Martial_law_in_Hawaii/

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Hawaiian monarchy overthrown

https://www.ksbe.edu/assets/pdfs/The_Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Monarchy_PDF.pdf

https://www.nvlchawaii.org/hawaiian-monarchy-overthrown-territory-hawaii

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Daishoji Chapter

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Information and Pictures from Daishoji castle

http://www.japancastle.jp/2016/05/Daishoji-castle.html

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Kutani ceramics in Ishikawa prefecture

https://www.kutani.org/spip.php?article73

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About Yamanaka Onsen

https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4278.html

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More pictures of Yamanaka Onsen

https://www.yamanaka-spa.or.jp/global/eng/view2.html

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History of Kokuyo Paper company

https://www.kokuyo.com/en/corporateprofile/history/02.html

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About Tokugawa Iemitsu

https://study.com/academy/lesson/who-was-tokugawa-iemitsu-history-facts-quotes.html

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Kobayakawa Hideaki Fakebook site

http://www.classtools.net/fb/73/HMRWG3

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General

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About different Japanese words to say woman

https://savvytokyo.com/many-ways-say-woman-japanese/

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Heisei to Reiwa – Japan enters a new age

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/japan-spring-and-prosperity-the-watchwords-as-country-announces-a-new-era/

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Appendix

 

General

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Women's roles

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/286/women-in-ancient-japan-from-matriarchal-antiquity-to-acquiescent-confinement

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East Asian History

https://www.thoughtco.com/east-asia-history-4133322

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Japanese History

https://www.japanvisitor.com/japanese-culture/history

 

Heritage of Japan - many articles

https://heritageofjapan.akjapanblogs.com

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Jomon era

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/just-what-was-so-amazing-about-jomon-japan/ways-of-the-jomon-world-2/viewpoints-on-the-jomon-village/were-all-people-equal-in-the-jomon-society/

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Japanese industrialisation in Meiji Japan

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1369/women-in-meiji-japan-exploring-the-underclass-of-japanese-industrialization

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Great Kanto Earthquake

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-japan-earthquake-of-1923-1764539/

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Heisei era (Japan Times subscription needed)

https://features.japantimes.co.jp/heisei-moments-part-9-family/

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Buddhism

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Taking root in Japan

https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/inception-of-the-imperial-system-asuka-era/how-buddhism-came-to-take-root-in-japan/

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New American Zen: Examining American Women’s Adaption of Traditonal Japanese Soto Zen Practice, by Courtney M. Just

https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1623&context=etd

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Female warriors

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Legendary tales of female Samurai

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/12/07/women-warriors-of-japan/

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Samurai Girl Power

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/mess_with_these_female_japanese_warriors_from_long_ago_and_youll_regret_it

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Pictures of Female Samurai Warriors

https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/female-samurai-warriors-immortalized-in-19th-century-japanese-photos.html?fbclid=IwAR31bBqjboNdHFSNOasHJ1YBz2g0DWD4omzGXO5ZYD2PQ3neEnBPiCEN2ag

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Hangaku Gozen

https://lightinthecloudsblog.com/2017/08/23/story-of-the-skillful-archer-named-hangaku-gozen/

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Kendo in pre-war schools

https://chinesemartialstudies.com/2017/03/19/through-a-lens-darkly-44-martial-arts-in-pre-war-japanese-schools/

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Female activism from Meiji era on

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Kishida Toshiko

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/WR-04.html

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Japanese women's suffrage

https://www.eiu.edu/historia/Japanese%20Women%20Suffrage.pdf

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First female governor of Tokyo

https://www.forbes.com/profile/yuriko-koike/

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Women's protests in Japan today

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210309/p2a/00m/0na/009000c

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Female dress code protests

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2019/11/8769709/japan-glasses-ban-women-dress-code-protest

https://daily.jstor.org/what-is-the-kutoo-movement/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50342714

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-women-high-heels-idUSKCN1T50G5

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Women in Management in Japan

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-companies-women/women-in-management-at-japan-firms-still-a-rarity-reuters-poll-idUSKCN1LT3GF

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Japanische Thronfolge ohne Frauen (German)

https://www.nzz.ch/international/die-japanische-thronfolge-verzichtet-auf-frauen-ld.1478512?mktcid=nled&mktcval=102&kid=_2019-4-30

 

 

Women's art

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http://9-magazine.com/artsandculture/forgotten-women-artists-in-art-history-uemura-shoen/

https://womennart.com/2019/03/20/who-was-uemura-shoen/

https://kyotocity-kyocera.museum/en/exhibition/20210717-0912

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-inspiring-story-of-uemura-shōen/mwXxZujHMzKwGw?hl=en

https://japanobjects.com/features/katsushika-oi

https://www.ibuki-kuramochi.com

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