Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 25 - Colony Drop (コロニーが落ちる日), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on women at work in Japan of the 1980s, nuclear pulse engines, seiza, and fortune-telling machines.

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- Paper about labor force participation of Japanese women:

Shimada, Haruo, and Yoshio Higuchi. “An Analysis of Trends in Female Labor Force Participation in Japan.” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 3, no. 1, 1985, pp. S355–S374. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2535011.

- Wikipedia page on marriage in Japan.

- Wikipedia page for Japan’s Equal Employment Opportunity Law.

- OECD paper on gender pay gap for full-time workers in member countries.

- Japan Times opinion article about the ongoing discrimination Japanese women face in the workforce.

- Article from Human Rights Watch about workplace harassment in Japan.

- Article from Nikkei Asian Review on the sexual harassment of job-seekers.

- CNN article covering a Japanese survey about overwork, office culture, and mental health.

- Daily Beast article about recent (2018) sexual harassment and sexual discrimination scandals in Japan.

*- Unseen Japan translation of recent HuffPo Japan article about harassment during job-seeking.

- Wikipedia article on the JSDF (Japan Self-Defense Force).

- Japan Times articles about women in the JSDF.

- Graph of mean age at first marriage in Japan from 1955 to 2018, by gender.

- Trends of mean age at first birth in Poland, Japan and Sweden.

- An article with good statistics on dating, marriage, and childbearing in Japan, but with positions and conclusions I mostly disagree with, by Akihiko Kato, a Professor in the School of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University.

- Huffpo article on

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