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Following her return to Japan, Ayako continued to work extensively as a journalist, lecturer, and translator. In 1955, she published an article with the title "Shufu to iu dai-ni shokugyö-ron" ('Housewife: The Second
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She was born Tanaka Ayako in Tokyo, Japan in 1903, the daughter of a college professor. During the 1920s, she became active in politics. While in the United States, she became friends with writers
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This column focused on daily life, while incorporating feminist and antiwar commentary. She returned to New York later that year. In 1938, she went on a lecture tour with the
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also simplifies some elements of her biography, and later in life she described it as a "novelistic semi-autobiographical text." While
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