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Yoko Matsuoka (Japanese: 松岡洋子 20 April 1916 – 7 December 1979) was a Japanese writer, literary agent, translator, and anti-war and women's rights activist. She was born in Tokyo and was educated in Japan and Korea before being sent to study in the United States in 1931, as a protest to the Asian Exclusion Act.
North Carolina: Married women are granted separate economy. [4] Arkansas: Married women are granted trade licenses. [4] Kansas: Married women are granted separate economy, trade licenses, and control over their earnings. [4] South Carolina: Married women were given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4]
Women in Japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II. Japanese women first gained the right to vote in 1880, but this was a temporary event limited to certain municipalities, [5] [6] and it was not until 1945 that women gained the right to vote on a permanent, nationwide basis. [7]
A women's rights group meeting in Tokyo, to push for universal suffrage. While women's advocacy has been present in Japan since the nineteenth century, aggressive calls for women's suffrage in Japan surfaced during the turbulent interwar period of the 1920s. Enduring a societal, political, and cultural metamorphosis, Japanese citizens lived in ...
In parliament, where conservative Liberal Democrats have been in power almost uninterruptedly since the end of World War II, female representation in the lower house is 10.3%, putting Japan 163rd ...
Sukeban by definition is a new Japanese women’s Joshi wrestling league. An ode to the girl gangs in the 1960s and 1970s — in Japanese, Sukeban is a term meaning “delinquent girl,” and the ...
The New Women's Association (NWA, also known as New Women's Society [1] 新婦人協会, Shin-fujin kyōkai) 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 ]
Crowned Miss Japan this week, Ukrainian-born Carolina Shiino cried with joy, thankful for the recognition of her identity as Japanese. Shiino has lived in Japan since moving here at age 5 and ...