Blogging Assignment 2

  My revised thesis statement for Essay 1 is "Several specific changes in Japanese values that have occurred through the Shouwa era may be correlated with specific changes in gender roles in Japan over the same period of time." and the three main supporting ideas for this thesis are as follows. The first supporting point for my thesis is that the value that women should be free to take action leaded to the advance of women to work. The second supporting point for my thesis is that the Western value brought to Japan changed the Japanese way of thinking into a thought that men should also engage in houseworks and nursing. The third supporting point for my thesis is that the current situation which some men take place of their wives and take on all the houseworks and nursing is brought about by the value that people should live freely under their own individual value.

Blogging Assignment 1

   My topic for the essay 1 will be "the change in gender roles and values in Japan". The reason I chose this topic is because I am interested in Japanese gender matters. In Japan, there are many Japanese women working in society. In addition, there are some men taking places of their wives and doing houseworks and nursing. However, this was not possible if it were hundreds of years ago. In my essay, I will write about how gender roles in Japan have changed. Moreover, I want to write about how Japanese people changed their values and what made them change. My thesis statement will be "There have been various changes in Japanese values; as they changed, gender roles also have changed in Japan".