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  2. Women in Japan - Wikipedia

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    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, [6] [7] and it was not until 1945 that women gained the right to vote on a permanent, nationwide basis. [8]

  3. Feminism in Japan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Women's suffrage in Japan - Wikipedia

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    After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the concept of human rights and universal suffrage began to take hold in Japan. During the late 19th century, the first proponents for women's rights advocated, not for political inclusion or voting rights, but for reforms in the patriarchal society oppressing women.

  5. Women gradually rise in Japanese politics but face deep ...

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    Multiple women competing for a top political office is still rare in Japan, which has a terrible global gender-equality ranking, but Koike’s win highlights a gradual rise in powerful female ...

  6. Women in Asia are slowly starting to break through historic ...

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    For women in prime working years, those between the ages of 25 and 54, Japan’s female labor participation rate has surged to a record high of 83%, compared with 77% for the U.S. Japan’s ...

  7. Gender inequality in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Between 1878 and 1883, when the Meiji government restructured the state, Japanese women's political and legal rights were significantly reduced. This restructure paved the way for solidifying Japan's legal structure, but introduced new laws and terms regarding kōmin, "citizens or subjects," and kōken/ri, "public rights."

  8. Human rights in Japan - Wikipedia

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    In December 2008 United Nations Human Rights Committee gave a recommendation to Japan relating to public welfare in Article 12 and 13 of the Constitution that "while taking note of the State party's explanation that 'public welfare' cannot be relied on as a ground on placing arbitrary restrictions on human rights, the Committee reiterate its ...

  9. Asia-Japan Women's Resource Center - Wikipedia

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    It wasn't until 1985 that the Japanese government ratified a Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, [3] and the country received failing marks as late as 1986 in Humana's World Human Rights Guide [4] regarding the status of women, and is one of the industrialized world's least equal countries in terms of ...