Hi, everyone!
Is everything all right with you??
I came back from Gihu at late last night. Fortunately, it was really nice weather while our two days trip, and now, my face is smarting with something like sunburn. We visited Takayama, Shin-hodaka, and Shirakawago, and really enjoyed beautiful old-fashioned townscapes, and a magnificent view from an observatory. We were also fully satisfied with delicious foods there, such as Hoba-miso, Hidagyu, and Gohemochi…but we treated a vast land of Gihu too lightly. When we went to Shirakawago from Shin-hodaka, we decided to use road No.360, carelessly. It was the beginning of a hell on earth.
The map only showed the road as a ‘narrow.’ But just after 30 minutes, our cries of fear echoed in our car. There were unbelievable narrow, steep, winding slopes, which had few road mirrors. A car coming in the opposite direction suddenly appeared to our car! It was surely my worst experience in my life. After that, we lastly arrived at Shirakawago, but since it took too long time, we couldn't visit Gujo-hachiman. A formidable land, Gihu…
So, see you tomorrow, good bye!
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Hi, everyone!!!
It is Monday, October 8, 2007, and is the last day of the long weekend. It has been raining softly and gently…reminding me of the days when my mother was still alive and we got together… Well, let me stop here, because I am not going to write anything about my memories of my mother.
Today I would like to write something about the Japanese domestic labor. I wanted to write about it for a long time, but I was too busy to sit down to think about it. But these days I have a little time to sit down and think about various matters.
Probably, I said before that the domestic labor debate in the West began in 1969 with a published essay written by Margaret Benston. Have you read her article? It is intriguing, isn’t it? If you have not, please paste and click the following and then you can get the article. It’s free. Amazing, isn’t it?
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n7_v41/ai_8257991
It is now generally known, thanks to Ueno Chizuko’s research into the Japanese domestic labor debate, that the Japanese debate began in 1955 with a magazine article by Ishigaki Ayako. The Japanese debate took place much earlier than that in the West. But Ishigaki was not a Marxist feminist, and thus her contention did not demonstrate any Marxist perspective unlike Benston’s assertion. Ishigaki claimed that housewives are consumers and that they should go out to work and develop their talents and abilities as career women.
But, in 1960, Isono Fujiko argued that women produce value for the capitalist through the reproduction of their husbands’ labor, and should demand their reward back from the capitalist. So, Isono’s statement is based on the Marxist philosophy of labor.
Well, I think I have talked too much today, and hope I did not bore you.
I will talk to you again about the same subject tomorrow, I hope. Bye for now, my precious friends.
Hello, friends.
Welcome back, Cherry. I'm glad that your family had a good time in Gifu, but it is a pity that you couldn't go to Gujyo Hachiman. Try someday.
I spent usual holidays, going to the gym, then my younger son's family visited and had dinner together on Sunday. My son's hobby is to make something by himself and this time he made a tourmaline band for me. I had stiff shoulder and back ache sometimes, so he brought the band made of troumaline powder covered by silicone coating agent which took him whole day to make and dry it.
He says troumaline makes blood circulation well, so it will cure my pain. So I wore the belt around my waist and slept, then my stomach and waist became gradually warm and I could sleep well.
This morning I woke up in full of pep. Maybe not only the belt but also his kindness cured my pain.
Hello, everyone.
There are so many three consecutive holidays these days, aren’t there? Anyway, everyday is Sunday for me, but that means, everyday is weekday including holidays. So you needn’t envy me. I have spent everyday monotonously.
Cherry, you spent nice exciting and thrilling holidays. It will become good memories of your family’s in future.
Magnolia, what a dutiful son you have! It is said love is a cure-all. I understand your pain become have got down.
Plum, now I remembered the article of domestic labor in the first seminar at your house and also recalled the Japanese media which had vigorously converted wives’ domestic labor into money. But it ended up one temporary issue, because public didn’t seriously consider about and some male critics treated it with contempt. However the elements of domestic works are changing in accordance with the changes of society such as birth-rate declining, high education of women, increasing of working women and longevity. In a sense, a job of looking after the aged, which used to be one of hard domestic task of wives, has become a kind of social labor. That sounds better. I am looking forward to study it through academic approach by Plum’s guidance.
By the way, I have been in trouble surrounding with piled readings, a lot of chores unfinished but intending to do. Those are caused by my nature of procrastination. What a shame! I’ll stop here today. See you soon, my dearest friends.
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