The Asia-Pacific War clearly had a great social and psychological impact on Japanese women. They were treated as an object of government labor mobilization schemes, and so played a crucial role because the Japanese government needed lots of labor to win the war. Previous studies have argued that only unmarried women were mobilized as laborer in wartime. They have overlooked the role of married women as laborers. And they have ignored the relationship between women’s labor and child-care in wartime. In this research, I would like to talk about married women’s labor mobilization and child-care at factories in Tokyo. Specifically, I focus on Kinro yoin who worked in munitions factory. Kinro yoin system was carried out before unmarried women were officially mobilized. Tokyo National Employment Agency decided to allow a factory which built the attached nursery to hire kinro yoin to produce war supplies. If the kinro yoin system had been succeeded, I think the labor policy of Japanese women in wartime would have changed. There is no research on kinro yoin until now. In that sense I think this research is very important.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.