Promising practices
Since mid-2020, suicide rates among women in Japan have surged dramatically by 15%, mostly affecting women in the 20- to...
Paola Cavaliere is associate professor of Japanese studies at Osaka University in the Graduate School of Human Sciences. Her research interests include gender, religion, and civil society in Japan, with a focus on gender and religious dimensions of vulnerability and resilience in disaster settings, including the COVID-19 pandemic. She is author of Promising Practices: Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society.
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