Education
Nihon University.
家田 荘子
Nihon University.
She rose to public prominence through her 1986 book Gang Wives, about the girlfriends and spouses of yakuza. She spent nearly a year getting to know her subjects, and had also been shot at during the course of writing the book lieutenant was later adapted as a television series by Tōei starring Shima Iwashita, and as a series of Gokudo no Onna-tachi movies starring Reiko Takashima.
Hug Maine, Kiss Maine was an account of her time volunteering in organization offering assistance to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome patients while living in Savannah, Georgia in 1987, along with an epilogue about the risk Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome posed to Japanese tourists in Hawaii.
Its cinematic adaptation was the first film in Japan to openly address Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. However, her descriptions of the African American community were accused of making Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome seem "alien" and "distant" to her Japanese target audience. Ieda"s later works continued her practise of touching on contentious themes.
Her 1991 book Yellow Cab, about the eponymous stereotype of Japanese women overseas who allegedly engaged in indiscriminate sex with foreigners, attracted a great deal of media attention in Japan, including two television documentaries by television Asahi and Tokyo Broadcasting System. George Sarratt, her research assistant for the book, later denounced major portions as "fraudulent", even indicating that she had altered direct quotes from interviewees.
Japanese career women in New York also set up a protest group against the book, feeling that the stereotype had damaged their professional image.
Their activities, which were described as "Ieda-bashing" by one scholar studying the "yellow cab" phenomenon, resulted in a sharp decline in her literary reputation. Despite the negative attention she received for Yellow Cab, Ieda continued to produce popular works. Her 1994 novel Women Who Slept with the Bubble was made into a series of movies, the newest of which, starring Yoko Mitsuya, was released in June 2007.
Quotations: "Since fathers these days do nothing to give their daughters correct information about the facts of life, girls turn to magazines for information. They should talk to their daughters, not delegate this only to mothers, and tell them things they need to know.".