Episode 08 - Our Gender series kicks off as Sam Timinsky interviews Ayako Kano, Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Their wide ranging discussion covers gender, family, labor, and the current Abe administration's policies in Japan. Kano explains the ways in which gender penetrates nearly every aspect of an individual's life and claims that activism or policy-making related to gender strike at the heart of a society's culture and politics.