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The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, Published 1934. Hardcover, xx, 204 pp. plus 13 unnumbered pages of plates; 20 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs; pale gray-green endpapers printed with a pine, plum and bamboo design.
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Pale green cloth boards with dark green lettering to front cover and spine. Mild shelf and edge wear, with some color loss at corner tips and at head and foot of spine, and a hint of fraying at head of spine. Faint spot at upper corner of back cover near spine. Binding tight. Previous owner's name in ink, written sideways, on front pastedown. Mild toning to pastedowns. Pages mildly toned. Otherwise unmarked. Written for the United Study of Foreign Missions series, the annual mission study text for American church women, and unusual in the series for being written by Japanese women rather than about them. Michi Kawai (1877-1953) graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1904, became the first national secretary of the YWCA of Japan and founded Keisen Jogakuen in Tokyo. Ochimi Kubushiro (1882-1972) led the Japan WCTU and the Women's Suffrage League and campaigned for decades against licensed prostitution. Their survey of women's work in 1934 Japan runs through evangelism, girls' schools and colleges, social settlements, prohibition, the abolition of licensed vice, sex education and woman suffrage, with sections on work among Ainu, Formosan and Manchukuo populations. Individual women are named and profiled throughout. Contents: The Church at Work; New Opportunities; Advance in Education; Building the New Japan; Women at Home; Peace and International Friendship; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.