Setsuko Hani
Setsuko Hani | |
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羽仁説子 | |
Born | April 2, 1903 Tokyo, Japan |
Died | July 10, 1987 |
Occupation(s) | Writer, social critic, educator |
Children | 2, including Susumu Hani |
Mother | Hani Motoko |
Relatives | Sachiko Hidari (daughter-in-law) Yoko Matsuoka (cousin) |
Setsuko Hani (April 2, 1903 – July 10, 1987; in Japanese: 羽仁説子) was a Japanese writer, educator, and social critic, known for her 1948 essay "The Japanese Family System".
Early life and education
[edit]Hani Setsuko was born in Tokyo, the daughter of journalists Yoshikazu Hani and Hani Motoko. She was educated at the school her parents founded, Jiyu Gakuen.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Hani was a reporter and teacher as a young woman. In the 1930s she ran a school for Japanese children in Beijing. She was one of the founders of the Women's Democratic Club (Fujin minshū kurabu) in March 1946,[3] and joined Shidzue Kato, Yoko Matsuoka (who was also Hani's cousin), and other feminists in presenting a statement to General Douglas Macarthur on women's rights in post-war Japan.[4] As a "child welfare expert", she expressed concern for the children born to Western fathers and Japanese women during the post-war occupation.[5] In 1955 she was one of Japan's five representatives at the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) meeting in Geneva.[6]
Publications
[edit]- "The Japanese Family System" (1948, published by the Japan Institute of Pacific Studies)[7][8]
- Bonza and the Little Novice (1956)
- Shiiburuto no Musumetachi (Siebold's Daughters)[9]
- Tsuma no kokoro (1979, A Wife's Heart)
Personal life
[edit]Hani married historian Goro Hani ; their son was film director Susumu Hani (born 1928),[2] and their daughter was music educator and translator Kyoko Hani (1929–2015). Her husband died in 1983, and she died in 1987, at the age of 84.
References
[edit]- ^ Kahn, B. Winston (1996-12-01). "Hani Motoko and the Education of Japanese Women". The Historian. 59 (2): 391–401. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1997.tb00998.x. ISSN 0018-2370.
- ^ a b Jesty, Justin (2018-09-15). Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-1505-1.
- ^ Takemae, Eiji (2003-01-01). Allied Occupation of Japan. A&C Black. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-8264-1521-9.
- ^ Hopper, Helen M. (2019-03-13). A New Woman of Japan: A Political Biography of Kato Shidzue. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-71106-0.
- ^ "Occupation Births Problem for Japan". The Evening Advocate. May 14, 1952. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bullock, Julia C.; Kano, Ayako; Welker, James (2018-03-31). Rethinking Japanese Feminisms. University of Hawaii Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8248-7838-2.
- ^ Hani, Setsuko. The Japanese Family System: As Seen from the Standpoint of Japanese Women. Nihon Taiheiyo Mondai Chosakai (Japan Institute of Pacific Studies), 1948.
- ^ Holland, William Lancelot (1995). Remembering the Institute of Pacific Relations: The Memoirs of William L. Holland. RYUUKEISYOSYA. p. 562. ISBN 978-4-8447-6381-9.
- ^ Plutschow, Herbert (2007-03-22). Philipp Franz von Siebold and the Opening of Japan: A Re-evaluation. Global Oriental. pp. viii. ISBN 978-90-04-21349-4.