Introduction 1. Women and educational reform: Japan in a transnational world Introduction 2. Transnational flows: Women educators and educational reform in Japan Part 1: Transnational flows and women educators in modern Japan 1. Educational transfers between Britain, Japan, and China: Shimoda Utako's educational tour and entangled concepts of ryosai kenbo (good wife, wise mother) around the turn of the twentieth century 2. Tsuda Umeko and her transnational travels in the US and the UK in the late nineteenth century 3. oe' Sumi's transnational experience in the UK, Europe and Japan: The Construction of the modern Japanese housewife and mothers through Domestic Economy from the 1900s to the 1920s. Viewpoint 1. Women educators' identity in Japanese state--formation and empire--building: transnational transfer of self--colonizing culture? Part 2: Western women and Transnational engagements in modern Japanese education 4.

Women missionaries and the development of modern female Education in Japan in the late nineteenth century 5. Accreditation and the reform of women's higher education in Japan, 1946--1948 and beyond 6. US--Japanese progressive educators' interactions around race, gender and sexuality: Helen Heffernan in occupied Japan (1946--1947) Viewpoint 2. Empires of charity Part 3: Progressive education and intercultural exchange: Female practitioners in Japan, transnational Perspectives 7. Elizabeth Hughes and educational reform in Japan: Encounters, reception and dissemination at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century 8. Tsurumi Kazuko and the women's Life--recording movement: Her transnational experience via John Dewey and Pearl Buck from the 1930s to the 1950s Viewpoint 3. Retrospect and prospect.