Women In Changing Japan

About Joyce C Lebra

Joyce Lebra is professor of Japanese history at the University of Colorado. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard/Radcliffe and has spent eight years in Japan doing research and writing. Among her books on Japan are Jungle Alliance: Japan and the Indian National Army (Singapore: Asia/Pacific Press 1971); kuma Shigenobu Statesman of Meiji Japan (Canberra: Australian National University Press 1973); and Japans Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in World War II (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press 1975). Joy Paulson is a graduate student in history at the University of Colorado. She has a B.A. in East Asian Studies and history from the University of Colorado and has taught courses on Japanese women in experimental studies there. She hopes to do her dissertation on Japanese women and the media. Elizabeth Powers graduated from Indiana University and the University of Texas in Germanic languages. She studied for two years in Germany and was an editor at the University of Texas Press for two years. She also worked as editor of International Publications at the University of Tokyo Press.