Closing the gender gap in Japan (Vera Mackie, East Asia Forum)

Women in Japan voted and stood for office for the first time on 10 April 1946. It was the country’s first postwar election and the first election after the Japanese government amended the Electoral Law to include women. Of the 79 female candidates, 39 were elected to Japan’s national parliament, the Diet.

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/08/01/closing-the-gender-gap-in-japan/