The Japanese Women's Journals in Colonial Taiwan

Abstract

This chapter introduces the most important Japanese magazines, Taiwan Patriotic Women (Tainwan Aikoku Fujin) and Taiwan Women’s World (Taiwan Fujin Kai) in colonial Taiwan under the influence of the modern women’s education policy of the Japanese empire. Through examining the contents of these two magazines, the situation of circulation and the historical explanation, this article clearly shows how these magazines promoted the imperial principle of “good mothers and virtuous wives” as “women’s enlightenment” and played a major role in the Japanese colonial process of “molding,” “educating,” and ultimately “mobilizing” colonial Taiwan’s “new women.”