The Woman Question during the Japanese Occupation in Kikuko Kawakami’s and Tsuyako Miyake’s Philippine Diaries (1943)

• Main Author: Riddle, Julz E.;
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol70/iss2/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/1124/viewcontent/The_20Woman_20Question_20_5Bvol._2070_20no._202_20_282022_29_20243_E2_80_9371_5D.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Realizing the value of women’s labor in the war effort, the Japanese Empire called for women all over the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere (GEACPS) to shed Western influence. In 1943 Filipino women intellectuals and two Japanese writers, Kikuko Kawakami and Tsuyako Miyake, held two roundtable...