Kittredge Cherry

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“Womansword: What Words Say About Women” by Kittredge Cherry gives insights into in through . New edition from .

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    Jun 22
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    Thank you so much for your fabulous blurb! You really "got" it!

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  2. Jun 22

    Great new book on a little-known aspect of women in Japan: “Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch,” edited by Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich. Published by

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  3. 1 Oct 2020

    "Japanese: The women who enlighten the Sky" is a new art book by Florence Plissart, expatriate in Japan for 18 months. She met with the women of Japan using her pencils and brushes as a door-opener. Forty women, aged 16 to 92, posed for her.

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  4. 15 Mar 2020

    Some Japanese women are staying safe and happy during the coronoavirus outbreak by drinking with friends online. There’s even a new word for it: on-nomi, “オン飲み,” or online drinking.

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  5. 16 Dec 2019

    Japanese women are fighting back against sexual harassment and gropers in new ways with “chikan alerts” and “flower demos.”

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    24 Jun 2019

    Geraldine Harcourt, acclaimed translator of Yuko Tsushima and many other Japanese writers, died in New Zealand, in the early afternoon of 21 June 2019. Bye-bye Gerry: your work will live on. And you will live on in our hearts.

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  7. 26 Jun 2019

    Rest in peace to Geraldine Harcourt, a good friend and translator of Japanese literature. May 25, 1952 - June 21, 2019. Her translation of Yuko Tsushima's "Territory of Light" recently won the Miyoshi Translation Prize.

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  8. 17 Jun 2019

    I compiled quotes from all the great new reviews of the 30th-anniversary edition of "Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women."

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  9. 6 Jun 2019

    Japanese women started the movement to stop companies from requiring them to wear high heels on the job. The word “KuToo” combines "" and the Japanese words for shoes ("kutsu") and pain ("kutsuu").

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  10. 30 Apr 2019

    Welcome to the Reiwa era! "Japan hopes the Reiwa era will... tackle labor shortages of workers by encouraging more women to work," says the Washington Post.

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  11. 23 Apr 2019

    Marriage equality news from Japan:

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  12. 15 Feb 2019

    Ai Nakajima and Tina Baumann are married in Germany, but Japan doesn't recognise that. The two women are among 13 same-sex couples across Japan who took legal action on Valentine’s Day against the government, demanding the right to get married.

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    31 Jan 2019

    Four years after same-sex partnerships were introduced in Shibuya, Metropolis speaks to couples in Tokyo about love, marriage and equality. Featuring , and

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    13 Oct 2018

    Thinking about the Japanese word "okusan", about how mind-blowing it was to read "Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women" () by Kittredge Cherry as an undergrad, and how the book has never left my heart. どもすみません。お世話になりました。🙏💕

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    29 Nov 2018

    have to say 姦しい made me laugh because it's literally 3 women = noisy 🤣 Also this is not my original idea, I learned about how female kanji are used by reading by the lovely Kittredge Cherry! Learned so much about Japanese culture from that book 😍

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  16. 30 Jul 2018

    I enjoyed tonight’s PBS author interview about “Pachinko,” a family saga that begins with a Korean woman immigrating to Japan by . She spent 4 years in Japan doing research for the novel, a finalist for the National Book Award.

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  17. 20 Apr 2018

    “Womansword” author Kittredge Cherry is interviewed at length in the article “Christianity in Contemporary Japan: Subversion, Spirituality and Social Justice” in magazine.

    "Christianity in Japan: Subversion, Spirituality and Social Justice." Our feature article explores what it means to be a today. Interviews with and members of
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    12 Apr 2018

    My piece on Christianity in Japan. Was particularly wonderful to interview - such a powerful feminist and courageous champion of queer spirituality.

    "Christianity in Japan: Subversion, Spirituality and Social Justice." Our feature article explores what it means to be a today. Interviews with and members of
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  19. 9 Apr 2018

    Debate over women's rights in Japan was sparked recently when female medics were ordered to leave a sumo ring.

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  20. 21 Mar 2018

    Today Google Doodle is honoring Japanese geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi, the first woman to earn a PhD in chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1957, be elected to the Science Council of Japan in 1980, and win the Miyake Prize for geochemistry.

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