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Abortion in Japan is allowed under a term limit of 22 weeks for endangerment to the health of the pregnant woman, economic hardship, or rape. [1] Chapter XXIX of the Penal Code of Japan makes abortion de jure illegal in the country, but exceptions to the law are broad enough that it is widely accepted and practiced.
The fight for reproductive rights in Japanese Feminism can be traced back as early as the 1920s with the work of socialist activist Ishimoto Shizue. Shizue relocated to New York City with her husband and collaborated with American activist Margaret Sanger who was currently advocating for women's reproductive rights in the United States. Both ...
Chizuko Ueno (上野 千鶴子, Ueno Chizuko, born 12 July 1948) [1] is a Japanese sociologist and Japan's "best-known feminist". [2] [3] Her work covers sociological issues including semiotics, capitalism, and feminism in Japan. [1] [4] Ueno is known for the quality, polarizing nature, and accessibility of her work. [5] She was married to ...
However, some lawmakers and women's rights groups in socially conservative Japan have said a ruling that challenges the law would sow confusion and undermine women's rights. Japan's Supreme Court ...
A Japanese court will decide on Wednesday whether bans on same-sex marriages are constitutional, a ruling that could set the future course of LGBT rights in the only G7 nation that does not allow ...
Japan's parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world's lowest, amid calls for greater ...
Women and public life in early Meiji Japan: The development of the feminist movement (U of Michigan Press, 2020). ASIN 192928067X; Robins-Mowry, Dorothy. The hidden sun: Women of modern Japan (Westview Press, 1983) ASIN 0865314217; Sato, Barbara. The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan (Duke UP, 2003). ASIN 0822330083
Ichikawa Fusae in 1947. Shidzue Katō: (1897–2001) As a member of the Japanese Socialist Party, Shidzue Kato was the first woman elected to the Imperial Diet.She spent the majority of her life fighting for women's reproductive and political rights.