Etsuko KATO
Director, Center for Gender Studies
Senior Associate Professor, International Christian University
【The article below is the same as the article that appears in the twelfth issue of the CGS Newsletter.】
From April 2009, I have had the honor of serving as CGS Director, following in the footsteps of Kazuko Tanaka(2004-2007) and Natsumi Ikoma (2008). It has "only", and at the same time, "already" been 6 years since the establishment of our center. I feel that we are now entering upon a second stage in our history.