Fuki Kushida

As a young widow, Kushida had difficulty making a living. She dedicated her life to improving Japanese women's lives, helping make them more equal in Japan's male-oriented society. She co-founded the Federation of Japanese Women's Organizations, currently an umbrella of 19 associations with 900,000 members, and was the organization's president since 1958. She also was a well-known peace activist and, in the 1940s, was the first secretary general the Women's Democratic Club. Kushida died February 5 at age 101. From This is True for 4 February 2001 Suggestions for further reading: The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe Amazon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: This is an original story about the insect collector, Jumpei, who gets caught in a hole in the sand without being able to escape. He meets a widow there who spends her days shoveling sand away from her home in the dunes. Both engage in a series of er...   If You Follow Me: A Novel by Watrous, Malena Amazon Price: Customer Review: Perhaps an ideal time for me to pick up this book on a personal level, I was in desparate need to be taken away and If You Follow Me did just that. It allowed me to follow someone else on another journey. I love the innocence in Marina's misadvent...   Sadako and the thousand paper cranes by Eleanor Coerr Amazon Price: $5.99 Customer Review: "If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again." Sadako was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on her home town of Hiroshima. Ten years later she developed leukemia as a result o...   Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden Amazon Price: $10.20 Customer Review: LOVED THIS BOOK. COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. READ IT IN A FEW HOURS   Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (O... by Lauren Kessler Amazon Price: $12.89 Customer Review: Stubborn Twig covers the lives of 3 generations of Japanese from the early 1900's when they settled in Hood River, OR to the present. It includes the prejudice they encountered, the internment during WWII and a detailed account of how they dealt wit...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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