Recently I was interviewed by my former student Mizuki Nakata for her research about professional migrant women in Japan, where she is aiming to understand what difficulties including for example isolation, exclusion and discrimination but also challenges as building up a social network, realizing some kind of work-life balance and finding the right niche in Japanese society, they faced and even overcame. As there are nowadays so many different kind of women in Japan, living, working, surviving but also thriving here, it will be important to see what kind of results the research will reveal and how it might help other women to take control of their own life, set goals, and make positive choices, or in other words, how can we empower women to change Japan from inside.
