Sinai Harel, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies and the Seymour Fox School of Education in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in gender and sexuality within the Japanese Educational System. As a recipient of the MEXT scholarship, she completed her doctoral studies at Osaka University, where she explored the gender consciousness and careers of high school female-teachers. Currently, she studies public media discourses on gender and sexuality education in Japan, alongside a research project in partnership with the Israeli Institute for Gender Equity in Education, co-designing tools with elementary school teachers to promote gender-equitable skill development.