Capstones
Graduation Date
Fall 12-31-2015
Grading Professor
Bob Sacha
Subject Concentration
International
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Abstract
Masae Satouchi is not an average Japanese woman. When she lived in Shiga Prefecture, a country town an hour away from Kyoto, her ex-boyfriends were uncomfortable with her eccentricity. She liked to wear colorful clothes, they didn’t. “I was too colorful to live in Japan,” she says. Japan is, of course, a modern, industrialized nation. The society, however, is famously conservative and does not allow for much unique self-expression. The situation is particularly difficult for Japanese women. Japan ranks 105 out of 136 in global gender gap index. Most women their quit jobs after having their first child.
Recommended Citation
Fu, Beimeng, "Geisha On Fire" (2015). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gj_etds/91