History
After graduating from Nagaoka high school, she entered Keio University. Later she graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, majoring in history.
Sakurai started her career as a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor in Tokyo. She served as a news presenter on Nippon Television's late night news programme, Kyo-no-dekigoto, from 1980 to 1996. She is best known for her work on the HIV-tainted blood scandal in Japan during the 1990s. She is critical of the traditional historical view of the Nanking Massacre, along with Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara and other Japanese conservative nationalists.
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“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker’s body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers’ intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”
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