Wright wrote in Female Combatants and Japan’s Meiji Restoration: the Case of Aizu. “Educated to be equally skilled in the ‘ways of the pen and the sword’, they were also indoctrinated with ...

Discover the powerful and largely untold history of Japan’s Onna-musha - female samurai warriors who stood alongside men on the battlefield. In this documentary, we explore their role in feudal ...

Living alongside a close-knit group of other female service members aboard the JS Osumi, a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force tank landing ship deployed for exercises in the East China Sea ...

In the feudal days before MacArthur, it contained more than a grain of truth; Japanese women then were the merest chattels, they had no civil rights whatever, and their menfolk seldom bothered ...

Heeding the WPS call, Japan remains resolute in its efforts ... in the social reintegration of former female combatants and ensuring their healthful transition to civilian life.

Japanese men have more opportunities than the nation's women in education, employment and society in general. Equality activists are "not optimistic" that effective change will happen anytime soon.