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Table of Contents:

• Introduction : An attempt to integrate gender and development issues of Japan and developing countries / Mayumi Murayama
• Economic development and gender disparities : the Japanese experience / Hiroki Nogami
• Gender perspectives in family planning : the development of family planning in postwar Japan and policy implications from the Japanese experience / Yasuko Hayase
• 'Livelihood improvement' in postwar Japan : its relevance for rural development today / Hiroshi Kan Sato
• Entrepreneurship and rural women's empowerment : some Japanese and Thai cases / Kazuko Kano
• Women's participation in politics and the women's movement : the history and background of recent successes of women candidates in local elections / Kuniko Funabashi
• Has socialism contributed to gender role changes? A comparison of gender roles in Cuba and Japan / Kanako Yamaoka
• Nation-state, family and gender : recent studies in Japan and Turkey / Kaoru Murakami
• Factory women under globalization : incorporating Japanese women into the global factory debate / Mayumi Murayama.

Contributors:

Murayama, Mayumi, 1961-

Ajia Keizai Kenkyūjo (Japan)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Women in development — Japan

Women — Japan — Social conditions — 20th century

Women — Japan — Economic conditions — 20th century

Social change — Japan

Women in development — Developing countries

1900-1999

Women — Social conditions

Women

Women — Economic conditions

Social change

Women in development

Developing countries

Japan

General Notes:

"Outcome of a research project conducted at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) from 2002 to 2004"--Introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gift; The Nippon Foundation; 2009

Physical Description:

xx, 266 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

HQ1240.5.J3 G46 2005

ISBNs:

1403949441
9781403949448

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2005042931

OCLC Numbers:

58451964