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    “Everybody’s Treasure: The Takata-Matsubara Embroidery Project” and Its Meaning ―From the Perspective of Sharing “Livelihood Culture”―

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    At the Setagaya Art Museum in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, from March 5 to March 10, 2019, eight years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the exhibition “Remember the 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake: Thinking from Setagaya” was held. It featured embroidery by Hiroko Amano & thirty-one tapestries on which in total 741 embroideries by residents of disaster area and the other participants were arranged. Each piece was stitched with pine trees according to the common theme ‘our lost memorial pinewood.’ They were inspired by Amano who prompted this project. Firstly, this report describes the background of the launch of the project. Secondly, the author summarizes the feelings reflected in the pine tree tapestries of the disaster area, Takata-Matsubara in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture. Thirdly, the author clarifies the role of students’ involvement in this project. The author goes on to examine the significance of embroidery as handwork from the viewpoint of sharing “livelihood culture.” The author concludes that this exhibition is related to social issues and is an example of shared “livelihood culture.”departmental bulletin pape

    Household Economy of Self-employed and Farm Households from the Viewpoint of Gender Statistics

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    The main purposes of this study are threefold. First, it seeks to understand the position and quantitative changes of the self-employed by using government statistics. Second, it aims to analyze and study the family income and expenditure of self-employed and farm households from the viewpoint of gender statistics. Third, it attempts to define problems in improving the positions of female self-employed persons and to describe the relationship between the situation in Japan and foreign trends. The study examined these issues from the perspective of gender by using government statistics including the "Labor force survey," the "National survey of family income and expenditure," the "Family income and expenditure survey," and the "Agricultural management statistics study." This study noted that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals include numerical analyses of self-employed workers and family workers and set goals to be attained by 2015. Furthermore, the compensation of self-employed workers in Japan was examined by a non-governmental organization, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. These fact-finding trends also motivated the author to clarify the compensation of family-employed people's labor. By analyzing and examining the current government household economy statistics paying particular attention to gender statistics, it became clear that the statistics did not fully reveal the economic power of females, and that there was less information concerning women in households of self-employed persons and farmers than there was regarding women in workers' households. Studying government statistics in terms of gender is important in clarifying gender problems and in formulating gender equality policy.7KJ00005942039departmental bulletin pape
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