Asia-Japan Women’s Resource Cernter

Voices from
Japan

Voices from Japan, the English journal of AJWRC, is the
great source of networking with grassroots womenfs movements in Japan.
Included are featured articles from the latest titles of “Womenfs Asia
21”, AJWRCfs journal in Japanese as well as recent events, issues and
campaigns of women in Japan.

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our newsletter,
please contact us at ajwrc@ajwrc.org

THE LATEST NUMBER

No.17 – Summer 2006

Contents
Special Report 1:Developing Our Communication
Tools
Special Report 2:Work and Women’s Right to Health

Contents

Developing Our
Communication Tools
Let’s Develop Our Communication
Tools
Silence and Self-censorship of Mass Media
Conservatives Take
Aim at Education
Textual Harassment in the Context of the Backlash
against Gender Equality
“Onnagumi-inochi”: A Grass-roots Network Based
on Mobile Phones
Screening + Watching + Creating Visuals Renren Eiten
Feminist Active Documentary Video Festa, A Mobile Feminist Film Festival
Opens

Work and Women’s Right to
Health
Reproductive Health of Working Women
Working Women
Suffering from Mental and Physical Illnesses
Women’s Clinic to Support
Women’s Reproductive Health

News in Japan
Who
will Get the Benefit of “the Equality Law”?
A Pregnancy Puts Off the
Amendment of Imperial Household Law
Filipinas Demanded Revision of the
Japanese Nationality Law
Unbelievable Events Happening in Japan by the
Conservatives

BACK NUMBERS

No.16 – Wineter 2006

Contents 
Social Welfare
Reform 
Special report:
Women for Peace 

No.15 – Summer 2005

Contents 
Trafficking in
Women 
Gender and
Disasters 

No.14 – Winter 2005

Contents 
Rekindle the
Movement 
Women and
HIV/AIDS in Japan 

No.13 – Summer 2004

Contents 
Are You Afraid to
See the Concept of “Family” Change? 
Women and
Elections in Japan 

No.12 – Winter 2004

Contents 
Why Violence is
Directed to Girls? 
Recent Events in
Japan 
Women and Labor
in Japan 

No.11 – Summer 2003

Gender and
Law 

No.10 – Winter 2002

Revisiting sustainable Development from Gender Perspectives

No.09 – Summer 2002

Women’s Resistance against War, Violence and Sexual Exploitation

No.08 – Autumn 2001

Women and Labor – What is changing? How can we change?

No.07 – Spring@2001

Violence against Women – Battles on Women’s Body in Japan

No.06 – Autumn. 2000

Beyond Nationalism-Women’s Perspective for the 21st Century

No.05 – September@1999

Men and Prostitution – Research Project on Men and Prostitution

No.04 – August 1998

Globalization and Women’s Human Rights