Personal Statement:
My general teaching interests range from modern Japan to Third World and Japanese women's history and social theory. I offer graduate courses on the History of Japanese Urbanism; Japan: Revolution, Empire and War; Women in Industrializing Societies; and Seminar in Comparative Women's History. My research interests center on Japanese social history -- especially women's, children's, family, and gender history -- and related conceptual frameworks. I am currently finishing a book manuscript, Childhood, Motherhood, and the State in Early Twentieth-Century Japan; new projects include children's history.

Representative Publications:
"Women and Changes in the Household Division of Labor," in Recreating Japanese Women, 1800-1945, ed. Gail Lee Bernstein (1991).

"Japan," in Children in Historical and Comparative Perspective, ed. Joseph M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner (1991).

"One Day at a Time: Work and Domestic Life of Urban Underclass Women in Prewar Japan," in Women and Work in Modern Japan, ed. Janet Hunter (1993).

"The Death of 'Good Wife, Wise Mother'?", in Postwar Japan as History, ed. Andrew Gordon (1993).

Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan (1999)

Notes:
Professor Uno received a fellowship from the Japan Foundation for 1991-92. She was guest professor at Japan-Zentrum, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, 1995-6, and has been invited to lecture at London School of Economics, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; Harvard University; Ochanomizu Women's University; Japan Women's University.