Mayuko Itoh

Backsliding to Authoritarianism in Japan? State and Civil Responses to Experiences of Japanese Women Repatriated from Manchuria

Mayuko Itoh

Book Chapter  |  2022

This book represents a pioneering interdisciplinary effort to analyze Asian civil society under authoritarianism, a regime type th..

Transnational and Transgenerational Connections: Gendering US－Japan educational Exchange

Mayuko Itoh, Vera MACKIE

Book Chapter  |  2021

In April 2019 the Bank of Japan announced that new banknotes would be issued in 2024.1 The ¥5,000 note would honor Tsuda Umeko (18..

What war-related sexual violence against Japanese women in Manchuria tells us about democracy in contemporary Japan

Mayuko Itoh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Melbourne Asia Review

At the end of the Second World War, numerous Japanese women who resided in colonised areas of Imperial Japan, particularly Manchur..

Crossing Legal Boundaries through International Marriage and Migration: Analysis of Japanese Women’s Oral Histories

Mayuko Itoh

Journal article  |  2017  |  Japanese Studies

This article examines the experience of crossing legal, political, and socio-cultural boundaries by Japanese migrant women in inte..

Love, sex, and democracy in Japan during the American Occupation

Mayuko Itoh

Journal article  |  2016  |  ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW

Through providing a comprehensive trajectory of how sexuality in Japan was regulated, understood, practised and represented in the..

(Re)imagining marriage: Japanese women with non-Japanese husbands in Australia

M Itoh

Journal article  |  2015  |  Journal of Australian Studies, Japan

This article is about some Japanese women's experience in embarking on marriage with a non-Japanese national who holds either Aust..

Japanese migrant women's transnational gendered identity politics in international marriages in Australia

M ITOH

Journal article  |  2014  |  Lilith: A Feminist History Journal

In recent decades, there has been an increase in the number of Japanese female residents in Australia who are holders of Australia..

Dream Chasers: Japanese Migrant Women in International Marriages and their Experiences in the Hierarchy of Languages

M ITOH

Journal article  |  2012  |  Intersections : Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific

This article draws on interviews with Japanese migrant women in international marriages in a capital city of Australia.[1] In exis..