Yoshiko Miya

Yoshiko Miya (; 18 February 1945 – 4 April 2015) was a Japanese freelance writer and journalist, social critic and feminist. She published one of the first books about sexual violence experienced by Japanese women and the impact of recently implemented laws in 1984.

Biography Yoshiko was born in 1945. She studied English and American literature at the Aoyama Gakuin University in Shibuya, Tokyo, and sociology at Hosei University in Tokyo. the Japanese cultural construction of gender, the distinction between gender and sexuality, institutional responses to the female body "in crisis", mental and physical disability, anorexia, sexual violence, harassment, shame, teenage sex and sex work. She felt that individual women's liberation was essential to the success of feminist politics in Japan.

In 1984, Yoshiko wrote one of the first books about sexual violence experienced by Japanese women and the impact of recently implemented laws.

In 1997, she contributed a chapter to the book Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism. In 1991, she contributed a chapter to Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 regarding the expectations of Japanese women to both do factory work and become mothers in the 1930s and 1940s.

She died of pancreatic cancer in 2015.