Satō Toshiko left Japan for Vancouver in 1918 and came back to Japan in 1936. Subsequently, she left again for China in 1938. In May 1942, she became the editor-in-chief of the Chinese women’s journal Nu-Sheng, a propaganda magazine supported by imperial Japan, and continued this work with her assistant, the Chinese female writer Guan Lu, until her death in Shanghai in April 1945.
Toshiko’s editing assistant Guan Lu, however, was an underground member of the Chinese Communist Party which sent her to Nu-Sheng to collect information about Japan through Toshiko.
Even though the close bond between Guan Lu and Toshiko has been mentioned in previous researches, the ways in which Toshiko’s thought was constructed in Shanghai has not been addressed. Toshiko’s experience in Vancouver might be of great importance, seeing as she was strongly influenced by socialism. For example, she was involved in the women’s labor movement in Canada, and this experience also influenced her later activities in Shanghai and her relationship with Guan Lu.
For this reason, this paper will focus on how Toshiko was influenced by socialism in Vancouver and how she was involved in the international women’s labor movement. Through this study, not only the formation of the close bond between Toshiko and Guan Lu,but also Toshiko’s ideological position in Shanghai, will be elucidated.
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