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Handbook of Sport and Japan (2024)
Book
Macnaughtan, H., & Postlethwaite, V. (Eds.). (2024). Handbook of Sport and Japan. Japan Documents, MHM Limited

The Handbook of Sport and Japan presents a fascinating collection of established and new scholarship, a valuable text for readers who want to use sport as lens to look more closely into a nation. The chapters in the handbook convey what taking part i... Read More about Handbook of Sport and Japan.

Gendering Postwar Japan (2023)
Book Chapter
Barrass Chapman, E., & Macnaughtan, H. (2023). Gendering Postwar Japan. In S. Avenell (Ed.), Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History: A Handbook (127-145). Japan Documents

From the Witches of the Orient to the Blossoming Sevens: Volleyball and Rugby at the Tokyo Olympics (2020)
Journal Article
Macnaughtan, H. (2020). From the Witches of the Orient to the Blossoming Sevens: Volleyball and Rugby at the Tokyo Olympics. Japan focus, 18(4),

At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics the Japanese women’s volleyball team, nicknamed the ‘Witches of the Orient’, defeated the Soviet Union to win the gold medal. This article charts the story of the Witches journey to the Olympic final and draws parallels wit... Read More about From the Witches of the Orient to the Blossoming Sevens: Volleyball and Rugby at the Tokyo Olympics.

Gender and the Workplace (2019)
Book Chapter
Macnaughtan, H. (2019). Gender and the Workplace. In J. Coates, L. Fraser, & M. Pendleton (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179582-17

This chapter argues that the Japanese workplace remains deeply gendered despite increasing calls for gender equality and the incremental development of employment equality legislation since the mid-1980s. Japanese institutions continue to draw social... Read More about Gender and the Workplace.

Is Abe’s womenomics working? (2015)
Journal Article
Macnaughtan, H. (2015). Is Abe’s womenomics working?. East Asia Forum (Canberra, A.C.T.),

In September 2013 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to create a society in which ‘all women can shine’. Abe acknowledged that women had long been an underutilised resource in the Japanese economy. He promised to boost female labour participa... Read More about Is Abe’s womenomics working?.

Womenomics for Japan: is the Abe policy for gendered employment viable in an era of precarity? (2015)
Journal Article
Macnaughtan, H. (2015). Womenomics for Japan: is the Abe policy for gendered employment viable in an era of precarity?. Japan focus, 13(13), Article 4302

Womenomics is a theory that advocates the empowerment of women, arguing that enabling women to have access to equal participation in an economy and society will result in economic benefits and social progress. The need for Japan to implement womenomi... Read More about Womenomics for Japan: is the Abe policy for gendered employment viable in an era of precarity?.

The Oriental Witches: Women, Volleyball and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics (2014)
Journal Article
Macnaughtan, H. The Oriental Witches: Women, Volleyball and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Sport in History, 34(1), 134-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2013.855651

At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese women’s volleyball won the gold medal, which in many ways can be viewed as an epoch-making event in Japanese post-war sporting history. I explore the background to that victory, revealing a corporate history... Read More about The Oriental Witches: Women, Volleyball and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

The Life and Legacy of Kasai Masae: the Mother of Japanese Volleyball (2013)
Journal Article
Macnaughtan, H. (2013). The Life and Legacy of Kasai Masae: the Mother of Japanese Volleyball. Harvard Asia quarterly, 15(No.3/4), 38-46

Nakamura (nee: Kasai) Masae (July 14, 1933 – October
3, 2013) was Captain of the Japanese women’s volleyball
team, popularly nicknamed the “Oriental Witches” (Tōyō no
Majo) that won the Gold Medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
This victory propelle... Read More about The Life and Legacy of Kasai Masae: the Mother of Japanese Volleyball.

Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan (2012)
Book Chapter
Macnaughtan, H. (2012). Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan. In P. Francks, & J. Hunter (Eds.), The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000 (79-104). Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter discusses the increasingly important role played by women as everyday consumers in post-war Japan, focusing on their consumption of household and kitchen appliances, specifically the electric rice cooker. Two key areas are explored.... Read More about Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan.

An interview with Kasai Masae, captain of the Japanese women's volleyball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics (2012)
Journal Article
Macnaughtan, H. (2012). An interview with Kasai Masae, captain of the Japanese women's volleyball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Japan Forum, 24(4), 491-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2012.729851

This feature reflects on the gold medal victory for the Japanese women’s volleyball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, through the recollections of the team captain Kasai Masae. An interview with Kasai records the impact that victory had on her own lif... Read More about An interview with Kasai Masae, captain of the Japanese women's volleyball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Gender and the Global Textile Industry (2010)
Book Chapter
Hunter, J., & Macnaughtan, H. (2010). Gender and the Global Textile Industry. In L. H. van Voss, E. Hiemstra-Kuperus, & E. van Nederveen Meerkerk (Eds.), The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000. Ashgate Publishing Ltd

National Histories of Textile Workers: Japan (2010)
Book Chapter
Hunter, J., & Macnaughtan, H. (2010). National Histories of Textile Workers: Japan. In L. H. van Voss, E. Hiemstra-Kuperus, & E. van Nederveen Meerkerk (Eds.), The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000. Ashgate Publishing Ltd

From ‘Post-war’ to ‘Post-Bubble’: Contemporary Issues for Japanese Working Women (2006)
Book Chapter
Macnaughtan, H. (2006). From ‘Post-war’ to ‘Post-Bubble’: Contemporary Issues for Japanese Working Women. In P. Matanle, & W. Lunsing (Eds.), Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan. Palgrave Macmillan

In Japan, mass consumerism in the 1960s and feminist
movements in the 1970s expanded women’s expectations of personal freedom and purportedly served to free them from the domestic sphere. At the same time, an expansion in economic opportunities in... Read More about From ‘Post-war’ to ‘Post-Bubble’: Contemporary Issues for Japanese Working Women.

Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle: the Case of the Cotton Textile Industry, 1945-1975 (2005)
Book
Macnaughtan, H. (2005). Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle: the Case of the Cotton Textile Industry, 1945-1975. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203390856

This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different from, the better known Japanese employment system which was applied to male employees. Women, Work... Read More about Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle: the Case of the Cotton Textile Industry, 1945-1975.