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One day in March of 2015, I received a phone call that carried the news of my interviewee’s death. She had been the main character in the documentary film Ms. Ryang; A Female Diver (Japanese title: Ama no Ryan san). She passed away at the age of 98. The film reveals the exclusion she faced for approximately 20 years before giving birth to her first daughter, and also made clear that she identified as a mother throughout her life.
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Hong, JE. (2016). The Mother’s Identity among the Korean Diaspora Women of Japan. In: Ijichi, N., Kato, A., Sakurada, R. (eds) Rethinking Representations of Asian Women. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137525284_2
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