海を渡った女性記者・加納幽閑子 : 『台湾愛国婦人』時代を中心に

Kanō Yukashi was a woman reporter and writer who contributed mainly to women’s magazines from 1906 to 1935. In 1910, Yukashi went to Taiwan to help run Taiwan Aikoku Fujin, the first women’s magazine published in a prewar Japanese colony. She played an essential role in all of Taiwan Aikoku Fujin’s multiple functions: propaganda for the Taiwan Governor-General’s policy implementation, a general literary magazine, and a place for Japanese residents in Taiwan to contribute their writings. After ceasing publication of Taiwan Aikoku Fujin, Yukashi returned to the prewar Japanese mainland and contributed articles to Fujin Sekai, Waga Ie, Ie no Hikari, and other magazines. In Waga Ie and Ie no Hikari, she mainly wrote cautionary tales based on interviews with real people. Her articles, which mainly depict women of substance and sacrificial spirit, are heavily used in the media to promote understanding and cooperation with the system of the state that Imperial Japan demanded of its women.