Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments It is now over a decade since I first began to shape the evidence gleaned from Japanese archives into the arguments and interpretations in this book. I would like to express my gratitude to many fellow researchers on both sides of the Pacific for their willingness to discuss ideas and provide assistance as I worked through documents and secondary works along the long and winding way. I would like to thank the Japan Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California , Berkley, for financial awards that made possible the research for the dissertation on which this book is based, and Temple University for a summer research award to research photographs. Warm thanks to Irwin Scheiner, Thomas C. Smith, and Arlie Hochschild for advice, support, and intellectual stimulation. Without the generous assistance of Kyûichi Yoshida, Yasuko Ichibangase, Kazuyo Yamamoto, Kuni Nakajima, Takeo Shishido, Yoshiko Miyake, and Masako Ohtomo, this study would have remained a dream. Kazuo Niimura, director of the Ohara Institute for Social Research, graciously permitted use of the photographs appearing here. Hiroko Hara and Kaoru Tachi also deserve special mention, as do Jun Izumi, Nobuko Ogawa, Eiji Yutani, Miharu Nishimura, Keiko Katoda, Michiko Mabashi, Keiko Kawai, Kiyoko Tani, Ryûtar ò Kinoshita, Chizu Teshi, Motoko Òta, Mitsuru Hashimoto, Sachiko Kaneko, Sako Kawahara, and the faculty of the Social Welfare Department at Japan Women’s University. I also wish to thank those who took time out from busy schedules to assist a researcher from afar, including Hiroshi and Takeyo Urabe, Toku Suzuki, Yuriko Kawahara, Masako Arai, Takao Terawaki, Kazuo Jò, Katsuo Takano, Reverend Murayama, Mr. Miyoshi, Tamiko Shimizu, Ken Fukumoto , Ryòsuke Suga, Hideo Kojima, Shòichirò Kami, Masatoshi Okada, and Yoshimori Shibata. Previous work with members of the women’s sociology research group, especially Teruko Inoue, Kazuko Tanaka, Mitsue Yoneda, Emiko Kaya, Yòko Shòji, and Aiko Hada, helped establish the foundation for my present achievements. The congeniality and scholarship of Seiichi Andò, Joan x Acknowledgments Fujimura, Jeff Hanes, Laura Hein, Linda Angst, Peter Gran, Teshale Tibebu, and Tom Patterson also contributed much to this study. Special thanks to Tsuyoshi Itò for his photographic expertise. Finally, I would like to thank the external reviewers for their comments and Patricia Crosby, executive editor, and Susan Biggs Corrado, copyeditor, of the University of Hawai‘i Press for their professionalism and patience in seeing the book through to publication. ...