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The League for the Realisation of Woman Suffrage was founded in 1924, the year before the Japanese government enacted the Universal Manhood Suffrage Law, which gave the vote to all men 25 years or older, but did not extend the vote to women. In 1925 it changed its name to the Woman Suffrage League of Japan (婦選獲得同盟, Fusen Kakutoku ...
Feminism in Japan began with women's rights movements that date back to antiquity. [1] The movement started to gain momentum after Western thinking was brought into Japan during the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Japanese feminism differs from Western feminism in that less emphasis is placed on individual autonomy.
The New Women's Association ( NWA, also known as New Women's Society [1] 新婦人協会, Shin-fujin kyо̄kai) was a Japanese women's rights organization founded in 1919. [2] The organization strove to enhance women's rights in the areas of education, employment, and suffrage. [3] It also aimed to protect women from venereal disease by ...
Taishō Democracy was a liberal and democratic trend across the political, economic, and cultural fields in Japan that began roughly after the Russo-Japanese War and continued until the end of the Taishō era (1912–1926). This trend was most evident in the field of politics, famously represented by the Taishō Democracy Movement (大正 ...
Japan has a centuries-old tradition of male kabuki theatre actors cross-dressing onstage. [46] Transgender men (and more rarely, women) were also "conspicuous" in Tokyo's gei (gay) bar and club subculture in the pre- and post-World War II period. By the 1950s, publications concerning MTF cross-dressing were in circulation, advertising ...
Seitō ( Japanese: 青鞜), also known by its translated title Bluestocking, was a literary magazine created in 1911 by a group of five women: Haru Raichō Hiratsuka, Yasumochi Yoshiko, Mozume Kazuko, Kiuchi Teiko, and Nakano Hatsuko. [ 3] The group called themselves the Japanese Bluestocking Society (青鞜社 Seitō-sha) and used the magazine ...
Historic Relations: For over 15 centuries, the relationship between Japan and Korea was one of both cultural and economic exchanges, as well as political and military confrontations. During the ancient era, exchanges of cultures and ideas between Japan and mainland Asia were common through migration, diplomatic contact and trade between the two.
t. e. The Taishō era (大正時代, Taishō jidai, [taiɕoː dʑidai] ⓘ) was a period in the history of Japan dating from 30 July 1912 to 25 December 1926, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Taishō. [1] The new emperor was a sickly man, which prompted the shift in political power from the old oligarchic group of elder statesmen (or genrō ...