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The woman's magazine was a novelty at this time, and the modern girl was the model consumer, someone more often found in advertisements for cosmetics and fashion than in real life. The all-female Takarazuka Revue , established in 1914, [ 4 ] and the novel Naomi (1924) are outstanding examples of modern girl culture.
By 1920, the fight for women's political inclusion was at the forefront of the suffrage movement and, in 1921, the Diet of Japan (parliament) overruled Article 5 of the Police Security Act by granting women the right to attend political meetings.
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 confusion and frustration as their nation transitioned from a tiny ...
The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan is a non-fiction book by Barbara Sato about women and gender roles in 1920s and 1930s Japan. It was published in 2003 by Duke University Press .
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]
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]
Katsuko Saruhashi (猿橋 勝子, Saruhashi Katsuko, March 22, 1920 – September 29, 2007) was a Japanese geochemist who created tools that let her take some of the first measurements of carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels in seawater.
Kusunose Kita (楠瀬喜多 1836–1920) was one of the first Japanese advocates for women's political rights. Her actions helped realize women's suffrage (briefly) in parts of her home town of Kochi city, where she is still known as "minken baasan" ("people's rights granny").