Bio

Aya Ezawa is university lecturer in the sociology of Japan at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Born and raised in Germany, she obtained her BA in Japanese studies from Sophia University in Tokyo and received her PhD in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research has focused on the gender and class dimensions of social policy in Japan and in comparative perspective, and the life stories and trajectories of single mothers. Her most recent research examines the impact of the history and memory of WWII on children born of war in the Dutch East Indies.