{"id":1657,"date":"2019-01-29T14:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2023-08-07T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:43:45","slug":"an-iowa-woman-in-japan-karen-masons-trip-to-rikkyo-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2019\/01\/29\/an-iowa-woman-in-japan-karen-masons-trip-to-rikkyo-university\/","title":{"rendered":"An Iowa Woman in Japan: K\u00e4ren Mason’s Trip to Rikkyo University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

K\u00e4ren Mason, Iowa Women\u2019s Archives curator, traveled to Tokyo in November to speak at Rikkyo University. Sixty library students, archivists, and others attended her lecture, entitled \u201cArchives for All: Creating More Inclusive Archives in the United States.\u201d K\u00e4ren was invited by Ellen Hammond, former Japanese Studies librarian at Iowa and then at Yale, now living in Tokyo and teaching library courses at Rikkyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the highlights of her trip: glimpsing Mt Fuji from her hotel window, eating lots of delicious ramen and tempura, and visiting the National Women\u2019s Education Center and its Women\u2019s Archives Center in Saitama Prefecture, an hour\u2019s train ride from Tokyo. See below a few more memories from K\u00e4ren’s exciting trip! <\/p>\n\n\n

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Ellen Hammond and K\u00e4ren Mason with National Women’s Education Center staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A treasure from the Women\u2019s Archives Center: a sign carried by members of the Shufu Rengokai (Housewives\u2019 Association), founded in 1948. The sign says: The Children of Japan are Commercial Addicts!  <\/em>The character depicted was a popular cartoon figure called Fuku-chan (\u201cLittle Fuku\u201d) used in advertising aimed at kids in the postwar period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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K\u00e4ren and friend take a look at the stacks in the Women’s Archives Center, Saitama Prefecture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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K\u00e4ren Mason, Iowa Women\u2019s Archives curator, traveled to Tokyo in November to speak at Rikkyo University. Sixty library students, archivists, and others attended her lecture, entitled \u201cArchives for All: Creating More Inclusive Archives in the United States.\u201d K\u00e4ren was invited by Ellen Hammond, former Japanese Studies librarian at Iowa and then at Yale, now livingContinue reading “An Iowa Woman in Japan: K\u00e4ren Mason’s Trip to Rikkyo University”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8,1],"tags":[136,135,58,137,138],"syndication":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}