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Interrogating Households In Anticipation Of Disasters: The Feminization Of Preparedness, Chika Watanabe, Celie Hanson
Interrogating Households In Anticipation Of Disasters: The Feminization Of Preparedness, Chika Watanabe, Celie Hanson
Critical Disaster Studies
It is now a maxim among scholars and policy-makers alike that disaster preparedness needs to involve community-based approaches in order to be effective. These include preparedness strategies in the household. But how do disaster preparedness policies and public discourses define “the household” in the first place? In this article, we explore how particular gendered notions of the household are reproduced in disaster preparedness policies and activities in Japan and the UK. Drawing on historical and cross-cultural analyses, we suggest that household preparedness efforts place the burden of labor on people coded as women—a phenomenon we call “the feminization of preparedness.” …
Peace And Nuclear-Free Advocacy Revisited: Lessons From New Zealand And Implications For Japan, Pinar Temocin
Peace And Nuclear-Free Advocacy Revisited: Lessons From New Zealand And Implications For Japan, Pinar Temocin
International Journal of Nuclear Security
Although there are multiple pathways of conditions leading to desired policy outcomes, the viability of peace and nuclear-free advocacy can be related to the convergence of a strong, diverse, and active civil society, where leadership and a responsive political environment are well-integrated. We discuss that sociopolitical mobilizations (e.g. peace and nuclear-free advocacy), active civil society, and democratic institutions are not only linked to each other but are also co-existent. In this essay, we look at the case of New Zealand (Aotearoa) with its unique nuclear-free peace movement and find some implications for contemporary Japan, which is the only country which …
Shugendō: Pilgrimage And Ritual In A Japanese Folk Religion, Andrea K. Gill
Shugendō: Pilgrimage And Ritual In A Japanese Folk Religion, Andrea K. Gill
Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee
The religion of Shugendō has no shrines and it has no temples. It only has the liminality of the mountains; a space that is viewed in Japan as being ground that only gods, demons, and ghosts may set foot on. But the Yamabushi are not human, gods, or even demons. Instead they are believed to be living Buddhas, rare people that, through practice in the secluded mountains, have become privy to sacred knowledge that has awakened them to their internal Buddha nature, to borrow the words of Kukai, “in this very lifetime”. One of the defining features of Shugendō is …
The School Counselor As An Emerging Professional In The Japanese Educational System, Jeannine R. Studer
The School Counselor As An Emerging Professional In The Japanese Educational System, Jeannine R. Studer
International Education
The writer discusses the emergence of school counselors in Japan. She emphasizes that clinical psychologists are fulfilling the emerging school counselor role. She then discusses the emergence of school counselors in the U.S. and outlines disturbing influences in students' lives that concern school counselors in both countries. Finally, she considers whether disputes and issues that affected U.S. school counselors could act as a guide for their Japanese counterparts.