Annual Symposia (Month, Year, Theme and Venue)

June 2007	“Queering the Backlash: A Critical Perspective on the Binary Sex/Gender System” (Hosei University,Tokyo)
June 2006	“Violence, Trauma and Gender: Feminist Hopes against the Violence ” (Dawn Center,Osaka City)
June 2005	“Feminism and Wars: On the Recognition that Women Have ‘Advanced’ from Home Front to Battlefront” (Yokohama National University)
June 2004	“New Horizons Opened Up by Japanese Women's Lib” (Center for Gender Equality, Tottori Prefecture)
June 2003	“Issues and Perspectives over ‘Gender-equal’ Society” (Jumonji University)
June 2002	“Discourses on Pornography” (L-Park, Sendai City)
June 2001	“Institutionalization of Women's Studies” (Women's Center, Chiba City)
June 2000	“Feminism and Political Power” (University of Tokyo)
November 1999	“Dispatched Workers and Part-time Workers in The Corporate Restructuring Age: We Want to Work, But No Job is Available” (Dawn Center or Osaka Prefectural Women's Center, Osaka City)
June 1999	“Women's Expression in the 20th Century” (Josai International University)
November 1998	“Choosing to be a Full--time Housewife: Is This a Right or Wrong Choice, or a Happy or Unhappy Choice?” (Move, Kitakyushu City Women's Center)
June 1998	“ A ‘Fiction’ called Self-determination: Life, Sex and Body,” (Keio University, Tokyo)
November 1997	“So-called ‘Squeaks’ in A Family: Deviations Between a System and Emotion” (Nagaoka University, Ngaoka City)
June 1997	“What are women's studies for? - A Look at the Current Women Studies after 20-year experience in Japan” (Kanagawa Women's Center)
November 1996	“Feminism and Policy-Making Process” (Aichi Shukutoku University)
June 1996	“Women and Reproduction: Their Desires, Skills and Politics” (Wako University)
November 1995	“Diverse Feminism and Me” (Otemon Gakuin University)
June 1995	“Feminism and Nation States: Women and Their Responsibilities for Wars” (International Christian University)
November 1994	“Women Challenge ‘The Family Law’ in Japan: Family Registration/Different Surnames/the Non-marriage” (Women's Center, Nagoya City)
June 1994	“What can be done about the critics of feminism literature?” (Gender Equality Promotion Center, Toshima City, Tokyo)
November 1993	“Why is it very difficult for female students to find jobs? The Present Conditions and Structure of Gender Discrimination in Job Recruiting” (Kyoto Sangyo University)
June 1993	“Violence Against Wives -The Ins and Outs of Marriages” (Setagaya Women's Center, Tokyo)
November 1992	“Feminism and Freedom of Expression” (Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto City)
June 1992	“Creating Women's Studies in Asia” (Waseda University, Tokyo)
November 1991	“Comfort Women, Sex Tours and Korean Women in Japan - A Preparation Forum for the Asia Women's Conference” (Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto City)
June 1991	“Five Years After the Passing of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law - Has it Facilitated Women's Working Conditions?” (Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Tokyo)
December 1990	“Violence Against Women: Looking at Its Structure” (National Women's Education Center, Japan)
June 1990	“Politics of Sexual Reproduction” (Yokohama Women's Forum, Yokohama City)
December 1989	“Women's Rights and Gender Discrimination” (Kyoto Seika University)
June 1989	“How Do We Apply Feminism to Our Lives? - Dialogue between Komashaku and Fujieda Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of The Women's Studies Association of Japan ” (Hosei University, Tokyo)
November1988	“The Cultural Foundation in Japan and Feminism: Returning to the Origin of Feminism” (Osaka Women's University)
June 1988	“The Cultural Foundation in Japan and Feminism: Political Science through Visual Images” (National Women's Education Center, Japan)
November 1987	“The Cultural Foundation in Japan and Feminism: Reviewing Current Women's Studies” (Kyoto Municipal Junior College of Nursing, Kyoto City)
June 1987	“The Cultural Foundation in Japan and Feminism: Sexuality of Women (Life and Gender)” (Hosei University)
November 1986	“The Cultural Foundation in Japan and Feminism: A Look at the ‘Unpaid’ Labor of Women” (Kyoto Municipal Life Education Center)
June 1986	“The Cultural Foundation in Japan and Feminism: What are the Obstacles to Feminism?” (National Women's Education Center, Japan)
June 1985	“The So-called ‘Gender Discrimination’ and Women's Liberation - How We Have Been Tricked by Modern Society” (Working Women's Center, Nagoya City)
June 1984	“Women and Religions” (Waseda University)
June 1983	“Feminism and Academic Studies” (National Women's Education Center, Japan)
June 1982	“When A Woman Speaks about Herself: Focus on the Autobiographical Novels of Yuriko Miyamoto and Simone de Beauvoir”, Lecture by Prof. Noriko Mizuta (Kobe College, Kobe City)
June 1981	“Japanese Culture and Women”, Lecture by Prof. Douglas Lammis (Hosei University)
May 1980	“The Launching of Women's Studies” (Hosei University)