The existing research on Japanese security focuses mainly on the nation state and conceives of male elites as the key bearers of relevant knowledge about the phenomenon. This article problematizes these biases by zeroing in on women’s everyday-oriented perspectives, which fall outside the scope of security politics as traditionally conceived. More specifically, it analyzes the rich material provided by a survey of the members of three major Japanese women’s organizations, using a mixed-method approach premised on statistical methods and qualitative content analysis. The results show that the Japanese women in our sample accommodate and reproduce content from dominant elite views about security and insecurity. However, they also challenge and at times ignore these perspectives by identifying a host of other insecurities as more pressing in their daily lives, notably those related to environmental degradation and Japan’s political development.

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日本安全与不安全的日常观点：对三个妇女组织的调查

现有对日本安全的研究主要集中在民族国家上，并认为男性精英是该现象相关知识的关键承载者。本文通过关注女性以日常为导向的观点来解决这些偏见，这些观点超出了传统构想的安全政治范围。更具体地说，它使用以统计方法和定性内容分析为前提的混合方法，分析了对日本三大妇女组织成员的调查提供的丰富材料。结果表明，我们样本中的日本女性适应并复制了主流精英关于安全和不安全的观点的内容。然而，