Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement before World War II: Japanese Women in the Interwar Transnational Feminist Movement

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I t is with great pleasure that i thank the many people whose support made this book possible. initially, this project began as a dissertation for Doshisha University. my mentor, Gavin James Campbell, inspired me with his vision of historiography . He not only provided me with practical theories and methodologies for constructing ideas in writing but also conveyed the moral responsibility inherent in becoming a historian. i also thank Barbara Brown Zikmund, who guided my academic interest in American women’s history, and sugimori nagako, who is the leading scholar on the peace movement in Japan and who encouraged me to research it. i am deeply grateful to a number of institutions in Japan and the United states, including the library of Congress manuscript Division; the smith College Archives; the swarthmore College Peace Collection; Friends Historical library, swarthmore College; mariam Coffin Canaday library, Bryn mawr College; the Arthur and elizabeth schlesinger library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University; Japan Women’s University library; Doshisha University library; the international institute of American studies library, Doshisha University; and the Fusae ichikawa Center for Women and Governance. i have received generous support from these institutions, their archivists, and their librarians. i am also indebted to Japan Women’s University, Doshisha University, and the Arthur and elizabeth schlesinger library on the History of Women in America for dissertation and research grants. viii Acknowledgments some parts of the book were previously published as articles in the Journal of Women’s History, the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, and the Journal of Asia Pacific Studies. i thank these journals for their generous permission to incorporate parts of the articles into the book. in publishing the original articles, i received critical comments and advice from Jean H. Quataert and anonymous reviewers and editors for the Journal of Women’s History; from Thomas Dublin, Kathryn K. sklar, and two anonymous reviewers for Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000; and from sally Hastings, editors, and two unnamed reviewers for the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal. i am fortunate that Janet Francendese, executive editor; two anonymous reviewers; and other editors for Temple University Press found value in the manuscript, providing profound and insightful advice and encouragement at every stage so that the content, discussions, and writing itself would do justice to the subject. Also, i owe to an enormous debt to copyeditor Geoff read. With his profound knowledge about Japan and Japanese culture, he drew out and helped me construct what i really wanted to say in the manuscript , editing the language to flow naturally. in addition, i thank Kôra rumiko, who kindly gave her permission for the use of the photo of her mother, Wada Tomi, with Jane Addams. i owe an important debt to my friends. Diane Haring was, in addition to a good friend, generous with her valuable suggestions. Our discussions often explored interwar history in Asia and the West. i also thank elaine and Jim Dodges for their lasting friendship and kind support during my stays in the United states, and Kojima yumiko for her willingness to support me with her warmhearted sensibility and intelligence. Finally, i thank my family members. my late father, rokurô, and my mother, Aya, were always by my side and were a haven for me. my sons, isao, Takeshi, and Atsushi, were my closest friends and a constant source of wit, their support amplified by their spouses, emiko, mariko, and Chiharu. ...