Author Sonya Ryang in chapter two, Sovereign and Love, in her novel, Love and Sex in Modern Japan, discusses Sada's famous sex murder in juxtaposition with the infamous rape. from Nanjing. Abe Sada, a Japanese woman, became famous in pre-war Japan when she murdered her lover, Kichizo Ishida, then cut off his genitals and carried them in her purse. Sada and Ishida had a very physical relationship that experimented with masochism. The text describes that in their sex life, Soda would choke Ishida and even use his Obe Belt to cut off his breathing during the organisms. She was madly and possessively in love with him. For the time, her sexuality and gender identity were not the norm since they did not follow the patriarchal order of the ruler's divine rule. Pre-war Japan had regimented and organized passionate sexual relations in order to produce soldiers for the state and to declare its domination and hegemony over other societies. Love was not intended for erotic and passionate relationships, but, like everything else in Japan at that time, it was a means to the emperor and Japan. Essentially, at the time of the murder, Ryang asserts that "Sada, by committing herself to the personal cause of love, resisted the increasingly global military ethos of the times." In other words, Sada's actions did not correspond to the message propagated by the Japanese state. Typically during this period in Japan, women either bore children (often tasked with carrying an average of five children in order to meet the military's need for soldiers) or headed to military comfort stations. Essentially the sovereignty of the Emperor and the institutionalization of sex took place and sex was based on passionate love...... middle of paper ...... secondly I would like to ask how society would have reacted if Ishida had killed. Abe came out of this “passionate love” and carried his genitals. I think society as a whole would have reacted very differently and shows that gender often plays a role in how we see things. Finally, I felt like Sonya Ryang stereotyped all Japanese women in pre-war Japan, excluding Sada, as not having passionate romances. Surely there were other women who enjoyed passionate erotic love with their partners and did not kill them when they feared leaving them. Generally speaking, many women are completely devoted to the state, but surely not all Japanese women fit these roles and stereotypes. The fact that Sada is different from the norm does not excuse the actions she committed. And must therefore in no case serve as an example to society..