Exchange Diary

An Exchange diary (交換日記, Kōkan nikki?) is a notebook shared between friends, who take it in turns to write in their thoughts or other comments. Exchange diaries were especially popular in Japan in the 1990s in elementary and junior high schools, particularly among girls.

Famous quotes containing the words exchange and/or diary:

    “Let every woman ask herself: “Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work not paid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?” Let every woman ask.”
    —Voltairine Decleyre (1866–1912)

    “I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one’s own vomit.”
    —J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)