Seminars - Being a Woman in Japan: Facing Challenges Seminars organized in collaboration with the Comité de la Journée Franco-Japonaise de la Femme-JFJF and the Permanent Delegation of Japan to UNESCO 10 March 2009, Room IV, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.

 
A series of seminars will be held throughout the day, with the participation of prominent women who will discuss social, cultural and historical aspects of Japanese society. The objective is to highlight the contribution of Japanese women to the social and cultural life of their country, as well as to make known key issues that they have to face today. All presentations will be made in Japanese. English and French interpretation will be provided.

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Photo: © Yukiko Tsunoda
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Programme for the day:

• 10am – 10:30am: Video projection of Noriko TOMIYAMA’s testimony
• 10:30am – 11am: "Why are modern Japanese women drawn to Nô Theatre?" by Mizue MORI
• 11am – 11:30am: "Nothing was more worthy of pity than women” – the fate of women in the world of Dit du Genji by Kumiko HARAMA
• 11:30am – 12:15pm: The life of a female poet at the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926) “Misuzu KANEKO” (1903 - 1930) by Vanina LUCIANI
• 12:15pm – 2pm: Lunch break in the Foyer Room I: Traditional Nô Theatre Dance – Japanese Flower Art
• 2pm – 2:45pm: Sexual Harassment and Domestic Violence in Japan by Yukiko TSUNODA
• 2:45pm – 3:30pm: Return to social life and independence for the victims of domestic violence and how women affected by these acts of violence manage to help other women by Kaori YAMAGUCHI
• 3:30pm – 4pm: Difficulties of living with breast cancer in Japan and the need to help patients by Atsuko MORITA
• 4pm – 4:30pm: Oppression of the sexual conscience of Japanese women examined through an action against AIDS: L’Oréal – UNESCO, HAIRDRESSERS AGAINST AIDS by Miyuki YASUO
• 4:30pm – 5pm: Closing session by the Theatre directors Patricia TIEDTHE, Benoite VANDESMET, Sayori OKADA
• 5:30pm – 7pm: Poetry reading for children of “Misuzu KANEKO” (1903 - 1930) by The Séraph Company – Franco-Japanese women’s group


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Photo: © Atsuko Morita
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Source	BSP/GE
Author(s)	BSP/GE
Keywords	International Women's Day, UNESCO, Celebrations, Events, Conferences, Seminars, Women, 2009,