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Women's suffrage in Japan can trace its beginnings to democratization brought about by the Meiji Restoration, with the suffrage movement rising to prominence during the Taisho period. [1] The prohibition of women from political meetings had been abolished in 1922 after demands from women's organizations led by activists such as Hiratsuka ...
The New Japan Women's League began its operation as an organization dedicated to winning suffrage for women, [5] and Ichikawa was named the organization's first president. Ichikawa's efforts, coupled with the requirements of the Potsdam Declaration, resulted in full suffrage for women in November 1945. [6]
The New Japan Women's League (NJWL or Shin Nihon Fujin Dōmei) was a non-partisan [1] women's organization in Japan formed by Fusae Ichikawa on November 3, 1945, after WWII. . The NJWL was established to improve women's legal status in Japan, [2] gain women's suffrage, develop policies for women's lives, education and work, [3] and inform Japanese women about democracy and citizenship
The League of Women Voters of Japan (Nihon Fujin Yūkensha Dōmei) was a Japanese NGO advocating equal rights for women. It was established by Senator Fusae Ichikawa and other feminists in 1945, when Japanese women obtained the right to vote, inspired by the American League of Women Voters .
Kubushiro Ochimi (16 December 1882 – 23 October 1972; [1] in Japanese, 久布白落実, or くぶしろ おちみ in kana) was a Japanese religious leader, temperance activist, and feminist. She was president of the Japanese Women's Christian Temperance Union, and general director of the Women's Suffrage League in Japan.
Mochizuki Yuriko was born in 1900. [1]Having travelled abroad to study in Europe, after World War I ended, she returned to Japan, aspiring to become a novelist.She was one of the first Japanese women that cut her hair short during the 1920s, at a time that the feminist ideal of the "new woman" was gaining traction, [2] although she rejected the label herself. [3]
Kusunose Kita (楠瀬喜多) was born in Hirooka (part of present-day Kōchi city) as the daughter of Kesamaru Gihei, a rice merchant, in 1836.At the age of 21, she married Kusunose Minoru (楠瀬実), a samurai living in the castle town of Kōchi (the present Tōjin-chō area) and a kendō instructor, but was widowed in 1874.
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