Why is Tsurumi’s argument about the importance of Japanese women’s labor power to nation-building an important intervention to week 1’s theorizations of nationalism? On the flip side, what experiences might focus too much on this point occlude? The companies that owned factories tried to give jokoo some “moral education” in order to decrease their daily resistance. The companies tried to persuade these women that they worked for the nation, but women did not identify them with Japanese nationhood. They cared about their work and were proud of…

I like Japan. I like my Japanese friends, Japanese teacher, Japanese entertainment products and so on. I’m attracted to this nation, so I want to know it more. Social, cultural and economic history are all my types. In this class, I’m interested in the comfort women issue. In the summer…

PUBLISH A POST (in any genre: text, video, sound, image) reflecting on the forms of mutual aid that you have read about/thought about thus far in this course since your previous post. Discuss how one of these examples might be effectively adopted to alleviate the precarity that some communities are…

MEDIUM POST #2: Write and publish a post reflecting on the forms of mutual aid that you have read about/thought about thus far and discuss how one of these examples might be effectively adopted to alleviate the precarity that some communities are living through today. Include one source that you…

Question: How can Solnit’s description of a community coming together post-Katrina in the United States or Cooke’s reflection on covid 19 be brought together with the examples of community resiliency that are discussed in the post (and linked videos) of the Disaster Archipelago blog? How might some of these insights…